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How Quora died
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
One other way of saying “drives away people who give a fuck” could be saying those people are self-aggrandizing, self important, always yelling at the top of their lungs about their zealotry telling everyone at first opportunity about how they turn off JavaScript and don’t contribute the much to the discussion I liken people like this to the Amish. They balk at modernity as being incompatible with their beliefs. So t…
That really flipped your wig didn't it? I'm intellectually curious, what you're so deeply invested in that was just threatened?
He’s right, people who always talk about they don’t use sites that require Javacript adds about as much to the conversation as people who show up in television conversations and say “I haven’t owned a television in 20 years, do people still watch TV?”
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
I get random emails from them about "popular" questions like "why has Javascript replaced C++?" Seems like ragebait.
One thing I noticed back when I browsed Quora a lot is that most the answers were in direct opposition to the question being asked. It’s like clockwork. Q: why is running so good for you A: it actually isn’t good for you. Q: why do so many people run when it’s so bad for you A: it actually is really good for you. Every single question seemed to be this way. It probably reveals a lot about human nature, but it really…
For programming questions, the answer is always "it depends" even if it doesn't really depend.
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#164Twelve years ago, Quora was a Silicon Valley darling and notoriously had one of the more difficult interview processes. How far they’ve fallen.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can people not really understand this? Some of those related questions are dupes, other times they are paths to rabbit holes. ycombinator does the same thing. When you guys see posts that come up that have been here before, you post links to previous discussions. I saw this recently specifically with the links to articles on Martin Couney (I had a hard time finding that because the article is so poorly worded). Even…
The problem is that there's no continuity between what is related and what is an answer to the question asked. Related answers are intermixed with real answers at the same level. You can only tell something is a real answer by the absence of bold text and presence of light grey text. The link upthread isn't a good example, because the question is so basic it's easy for them to have a lot of related (duplicate) questi…
That, and I have seen AI answers in the mix too, often wildly wrong or completely off topic.
So you look for a question, and all the answers are not even relevant, and often completely off topic or wrong.
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#166Seems like every time I land on Quora it's just a bunch of people bragging about their IQs while simultaneously lambasting neo Nazis, all while missing the juicy irony of their entire worldview. I avoid Quora.
Most smart people I know oppose neo Nazis. That's not a very controversial position.
So you don't see the irony of people raving about how innately superior they are because of their IQ but hate on people whose core tenant was being innately superior?
"Smart" is very much a function of the work you put in, though of course not the only factor. I don't feel the need to have to explain this more than I have.
Edit: I have to ask... what about the smart people that don't oppose them? What's their deal?
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#167I briefly enjoyed contributing to Quora, but then they added a paid tier, “spaces”, and all that spammy content. Now, as someone who created a few of its popular answers, I never want to see the site again. I’ll probably get rid of my account too. It’s almost as if they explicitly didn’t want me there, and did everything to achieve that.
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#168So, the fourth paragraph of the article is supposed to demonstrate the decline of Quora. It has a number of links. One of those links shows a UI that's fairly obviously Reddit! [1] Another is to genius.com's lyrics to some song[2] which don't seem to have anything to do with anything the author's complaining about. Of the links actually relevant to Quora, one is about an obvious joke[3], which the author either doesn…
[3] is, as far as anyone can tell, an insane person and not a joke. They've posted literally hundreds of questions involving atheists, christian babies, and nonsensical situations.
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#169When I visit Quora, mainly through it being a result for something I've searched for on Google, I can never quite understand what's the question, the answer, and what's an answer to something completely different. So I've never felt compelled to stay or join myself. Also, for a while I just hit a login wall, which of course makes you not click a link there the next time.
Yeah, this is the main problem I have with Quora. You go to a thread to look for answers to a question, then find the platform has merged in a bunch of answers to related questions alongside the ones I'm actually there to read. For example, I found this random question just now: https://www.quora.com/How-does-blockchain-technology-work-11 About half the answers there are actually to that question. The rest are to que…
I really fail to understand how a company can consciously guide itself to degrade so badly. Like these were actual decisions of meetings and the results of a ton of work of teams to implement. And it destroyed the site.
Product of too much VC, probably.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
> they realized they had no idea how to monetize the content This sort of thing should be a nonprofit. When it was good, it was literally making the world a better place. Possibly the Library of Congress would be a good steward for such a platform. Something to make it resistant to enshittification.
Agreed re: being a non-profit. My great hope was that Elon might do that with Twitter. Needless to say, I was… not right about that.
Thanks for the laugh.