Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously
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#2This is disturbing. I hope this will not become a trend.
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#4I'd forgotten what Quora was, or that it had existed. Now I'm very glad that's the case, since I wouldn't want to have to stop using something I actually liked.
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#5What value does this have over, say, an anonymized view count? While it's nice to know that people have seen what you've written, does their identity really need to be known?
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#6You can turn it off, but then you can't see who viewed things. (Similar to how LinkedIn and OkCupid work with anonymous browsing.) And if you really want to see I'm sure you can do so via another account. (I think it is possible because okc and linkedin hide private data but quora hides public data.)
Instructions: http://www.quora.com/Views-on-Quora/How-do-I-turn-off-the-Vi...
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#7I've learned to go with the flow and trust them when they make changes like this. My first impression is usually to want the 'old Quora' back but once I get used to them, the changes do nearly always improve the experience. I would imagine this will be the same.
They are very skilled at interpreting needs and desires we didn't know we had and quickly correcting themselves the times they do make mistakes (like the recent notification spam issues).
edit: lol @ downvotes. Unacceptable to not be a Quora hater I guess...
Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously
#8Well as Eric Schmidt said, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place." ;)
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/21/top-10-the-quotable-e...
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#9Quora is in the same boat as FB (and to a certain extent, Twitter)
They think that the experience of their largely 20-something staff is anything short of revolutionary.
A bunch of kids running a digital media company with questionable morals and no connection to digital history. I will delete me Quora account. So far I have gotten little value from it. Time for it to have no data on me.
Deactivated!
Edit:
I followed up with an email to FEEDBACK@QUORA.COM asking them to delete my account and data.. will see what happens. I dont like the idea of a limbo account that can be reactivated/mined.
I'd prefer to have it deleted.
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#10This is disturbing. I hope this will not become a trend.
I don't think it will spread too much.
Nothing would kill Facebook quicker than then implementing this, for example.