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Re: CancelQuora

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Post by wayfinder » Sun, Oct 08, 2023, 11:30 PM UTC

reisse wrote: post #17

wayfinder wrote: post #13

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People add reddit to searches because it gives high quality answers. That’s not a Google problem. That’s a problem with the Internet. Your average independent website or blog puts up some heavily biased answer that is just limited to that one writer’s perspective.

Google problem is that appending reddit is the only reliable way to get something different from shitty copywrited SEO trash sites. I don't know when I last saw real independent websites and blogs in the search results, probably ten years ago?..

I rarely see a good independent blog.

Honestly the barrier to entry for a blog is very low and the benefit isn’t very high unless you spam it with ads, so who is exactly taking the time to make a blog?

Re: CancelQuora

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Post by wayfinder » Sun, Oct 08, 2023, 11:31 PM UTC

BeFlatXIII wrote: post #30

wayfinder wrote: post #13

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People add reddit to searches because it gives high quality answers. That’s not a Google problem. That’s a problem with the Internet. Your average independent website or blog puts up some heavily biased answer that is just limited to that one writer’s perspective.

> Your average independent website or blog puts up some heavily biased answer that is just limited to that one writer’s perspective. That also describes each individual Reddit comment. Reddit's magic is that it places them all next to one another for easy comparison.

But that’s the point. You get a bunch of competing opinions in one spot and writing a reddit comment doesn’t require maintaining a blog so you get a greater diversity of opinions.

Re: CancelQuora

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Post by wayfinder » Sun, Oct 08, 2023, 11:33 PM UTC

IshKebab wrote: post #24

wayfinder wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People add reddit to searches because it gives high quality answers. That’s not a Google problem. That’s a problem with the Internet. Your average independent website or blog puts up some heavily biased answer that is just limited to that one writer’s perspective.

Spammy low quality websites in a large proportion of searches isn't a Google problem? I'm sure that will reassure them when someone comes along with a search engine that solves that problem and people start moving to it from Google. "Not our problem!" they'll say as their traffic dwindles.

It isn’t when high quality sites don’t really exist.

The high quality sites ARE reddit and the like.

No normal person is going to spend the time to make and maintain a blog, especially if it doesn’t make them any money unless they spam it with ads.

Re: CancelQuora

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Post by _Algernon_ » Mon, Oct 09, 2023, 7:20 AM UTC

jfengel wrote: post #50

theodric wrote: post #26

Somehow I ended up on Quora's spam list, and despite my many requests, they refuse to unsubscribe me. What I see come through as the subject of those daily e-mails is a constant trickle of inflammatory pseudo-questions, and not infrequently paedo-/incest-adjacent ragebait, intended to provoke engagement. Someone or some algo that someone owns is curating this crap and believes that it's OK that it goes out as the "fa…

Those are all from the same person, or a small cadre using the same pattern. They brag about it to each other on a subreddit. Such questions get a huge amount of attention, and Quora's algorithm mistakes that for users wanting to see more of it. There is nobody curating it. It's all automated.

We need to stop accepting the "it's automated curation by an algorithm" excuse from companies. It isn't my problem that you outsourced your editorial responsibilities to a glorified paperclip optimizer. It's still your responsibility.

This applies not just to Quora, but every company with an "algorithm": Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Youtube, Reddit, etc.