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Re: Leaving Quora after 10 years of answering questions

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Post by bongoman37 »

haolez wrote: post #10

Quora has this nasty dark pattern where they send you spam e-mail with different senders for each "space". If you simply click on "Block this sender" in your e-mail client, it will not work, since they will send e-mails to you from new addresses. You have to block them at the domain level. In my opinion, this is extremely user hostile for the sake of improving some metrics.

Yes, this made me delete my Quora account. The emails are vaguely spammy and despite trying to reduce the frequency, every so often they started a new category of email that you had to independently cancel or block.

Re: Leaving Quora after 10 years of answering questions

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Post by vintermann »

abetusk wrote: post #62

This really makes my heart sink. It's not just that a top poster is leaving because they feel it hasn't been worth it in any real sense ("financial ... socially ... acclaim ... personal growth") but also because all that knowledge is now effectively behind a gate that will almost surely be lost within a couple decades. The Quora terms of service forbid "automated tools" and have a system that provides at least some a…

I don't know about the author, but Quora at least had a takeout feature when I left it.

Re: Leaving Quora after 10 years of answering questions

#93

Post by perl4ever »

ryanlol wrote: post #58
elzbardico wrote: post #56

"Let me tell you what Quora really is: Quora is the plaything of a couple of toddler luck** who, not content with having somehow pocketed generational wealth by the age of 25, felt obliged to bestow upon us the be-all, end-all: the world’s “best source for knowledge.” I’m serious about that s** – it’s their actual tagline. Not the writings of Isaac Newton nor the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. Not the dozens of pre-…

The original version without weird censorship that made the text really difficult to read: “Let me tell you what Quora really is: Quora is the plaything of a couple of toddler lucktards who, not content with having somehow pocketed generational wealth by the age of 25, felt obliged to bestow upon us the be-all, end-all: the world’s “best source for knowledge.” I’m serious about that shit – it’s their actual tagline.…

"In 2000 Cheever was brought in front of Harvard’s Administrative Board for creating a database of the Harvard student body. The program enabled students to find which dorm their fellow classmates were living in. The database was quickly shut down by the Harvard administration"

Re: Leaving Quora after 10 years of answering questions

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Post by spacechild1 »

ryanlol wrote: post #58
elzbardico wrote: post #56

"Let me tell you what Quora really is: Quora is the plaything of a couple of toddler luck** who, not content with having somehow pocketed generational wealth by the age of 25, felt obliged to bestow upon us the be-all, end-all: the world’s “best source for knowledge.” I’m serious about that s** – it’s their actual tagline. Not the writings of Isaac Newton nor the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. Not the dozens of pre-…

The original version without weird censorship that made the text really difficult to read: “Let me tell you what Quora really is: Quora is the plaything of a couple of toddler lucktards who, not content with having somehow pocketed generational wealth by the age of 25, felt obliged to bestow upon us the be-all, end-all: the world’s “best source for knowledge.” I’m serious about that shit – it’s their actual tagline.…

Thanks! We are all adults here, after all.

Re: Leaving Quora after 10 years of answering questions

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Post by vintermann »

cblconfederate wrote: post #3

> I will soon be gone from Quora. Were people ever in Quora? Isn't it one more of those 'free' sites that exploit the free labor of random people to sell questionable content? I don't get how someone can get so attached to his own image that considers himself to be part of a company that he s clearly not a part of.

In as much as quora connected you with other real people, of course it was worthwhile.

The problem was that quora paid people to flood the site with "quality" questions they didn't really care about the answer to. So the other people were often an illusion.

Re: Leaving Quora after 10 years of answering questions

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Post by dotancohen »

spurgu wrote: post #85
radu_floricica wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder about that. I'm not on reddit anymore, nor is anybody I know.

Niche subreddits are still decent but the community as a whole is a cesspool. The mistake was bringing internet to the masses, as opposed to keeping it difficult enough to be used only by passionate and/or smart people. Now that the cat is out of the bag maybe paid memberships to exclusive communities is the way to go? Just late night riffing here after a few drinks and, might be wrong about all of the above.

You're being downvoted for "gatekeeping" but you're not wrong.

NSF has the L2 paid membership section, which is the absolute best place for information in the field - both public and insider information. Likewise airliners.net has (or had) an excellent paid option, and I can think of a few others.

Requiring payment is still a good way to let those passionate about a topic self-admit themselves while keeping the masses at bay.

Re: Leaving Quora after 10 years of answering questions

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Post by danjac »

ryanlol wrote: post #58
elzbardico wrote: post #56

"Let me tell you what Quora really is: Quora is the plaything of a couple of toddler luck** who, not content with having somehow pocketed generational wealth by the age of 25, felt obliged to bestow upon us the be-all, end-all: the world’s “best source for knowledge.” I’m serious about that s** – it’s their actual tagline. Not the writings of Isaac Newton nor the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. Not the dozens of pre-…

The original version without weird censorship that made the text really difficult to read: “Let me tell you what Quora really is: Quora is the plaything of a couple of toddler lucktards who, not content with having somehow pocketed generational wealth by the age of 25, felt obliged to bestow upon us the be-all, end-all: the world’s “best source for knowledge.” I’m serious about that shit – it’s their actual tagline.…

Always a good rule of thumb: life advice from rich kids is worthless to everyone except other rich kids.

Re: Leaving Quora after 10 years of answering questions

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Post by Doctor_Fegg »

xenihn wrote: post #7

Is there an industry term for users who are responsible for contributing valuable content in exchange for nothing that could be legally classified as actual compensation? Or for a business whose revenue and valuation depends on said type of user? Something Awful is the first example of such a business that comes to mind, and Reddit is the biggest modern-day equivalent. Give your moderators power (however feeble that…

“crowdserfing”

Re: Leaving Quora after 10 years of answering questions

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Post by rolandog »

vintermann wrote: post #92
abetusk wrote: post #62

This really makes my heart sink. It's not just that a top poster is leaving because they feel it hasn't been worth it in any real sense ("financial ... socially ... acclaim ... personal growth") but also because all that knowledge is now effectively behind a gate that will almost surely be lost within a couple decades. The Quora terms of service forbid "automated tools" and have a system that provides at least some a…

I don't know about the author, but Quora at least had a takeout feature when I left it.

In the article, the author mentioned that that feature didn't include contextual links (like what was the URL of the question), and all inside a huge HTML page.

Re: Leaving Quora after 10 years of answering questions

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Post by nefitty »

dotancohen wrote: post #96
spurgu wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Niche subreddits are still decent but the community as a whole is a cesspool. The mistake was bringing internet to the masses, as opposed to keeping it difficult enough to be used only by passionate and/or smart people. Now that the cat is out of the bag maybe paid memberships to exclusive communities is the way to go? Just late night riffing here after a few drinks and, might be wrong about all of the above.

You're being downvoted for "gatekeeping" but you're not wrong. NSF has the L2 paid membership section, which is the absolute best place for information in the field - both public and insider information. Likewise airliners.net has (or had) an excellent paid option, and I can think of a few others. Requiring payment is still a good way to let those passionate about a topic self-admit themselves while keeping the masse…

They could have left that part about intelligence out.

I'm extremely intelligent, probably in the top 0.01% of the world. I welcome the less intelligent into my world. I believe in democracy.

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