Not all views are shared. http://www.quora.com/Views-on-Quora/Which-of-my-views-will-a...
If you are too afraid to visit that link, try this one: http://pastebin.com/T2s9Vjxn
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#152Quora, you fucked up.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you scroll all the way down? Still blurry here: http://imgur.com/Bbifs (on google chrome) Although I see in the html source there are some html comments "googleoff". I've never heard of those before. I guess "googleon"'ing the first answer is enough to get google juice while staying within the letter of rules, it's still really spammy. (Plus, how does that play with other search engines?)
Yes, you're right, I can see the blurring in certain cases now. If I go to the link you cited directly it is not blurred. But I if search for "How do Bayesian algorithms work" in Google, then click the link that Google finds, then it is blurred. Once you get the blurred Quora page, then even going to the link directly will get you a blurred page. If you delete all the Quora cookies, then it'll be back to being readab…
I'm pleased -- perhaps -- in that enough Googlers read HN that now maybe this blurring BS will be addressed.
Of course, it will be addressed by another "true name" purveyor. My head hurts.
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#155Quora 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…
I have to take the minority position and stand up for Quora here. I'm a huge fan of the service, and though I agree this latest move was a mis-step, I remain a loyal Quora user. Unlike you, I've gained a ton of value from it. Unlike the trivial discussions or content spam posted on Facebook or Twitter, Quora features tons of interesting conversations. The closest comparison to it might actually be Wikipedia, at least…
Yeah, I'm in the same camp.
One of the most appealing things about Quora is the extent to which it creates a pleasant community. When I saw this, I thought, "Hey, neat! I'll have a better idea who's reading my answers." But I understand why people are upset.
On the other hand, I almost murdered them when they started forcing people inbound from Facebook to log in with Facebook:
http://www.quora.com/rage-against-quora/Rage-forcing-Faceboo...
So I've got my eye on them. The extent to which they can square the community vibe and their relatively high moral standards with the expectations of their investors is still unclear.
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#156I was curious so I just had a look with my (fake name) account and the option called "Allow others to see what content I've viewed in feed" was set at "No". I don't recall ever playing with that setting so this may be a recent change on their part to avoid the backlash.
I'm not so sure. I just logged into my account (which I have rarely used) and the setting had a value of "Yes" for me.
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#157Although I don't have a Quora account, I definitely won't be signing up for one after hearing this news. I dislike the idea of passively sharing information. In my opinion, sharing should be a conscious decision the user makes, not something that the user is tricked or forced into.
How are you tricked or forced when you're told what's happening upfront and told how to stop it if you don't like it?
It's not like the proverbial hyperspace bypass paperwork, it's literally 3 clicks.
I swear guys, some of you have both very oversensitive outrage modules and a broad definition of deception. That goes to most everyone in this thread.
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#158Quora 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…
They could be morons for any number of reasons besides age. No need to speculate.
I believe the age thing is more about them not having an accrued history of personally-attributed content on the internet and how that weighed into making this decision.
Whether or not that's related to their age is debatable, but one would assume that people who have been publishing on the web for awhile -- bylined or anonymously -- would understand the negative impact this would have on their community or at least would have learned from previous companies' mistakes that just isn't something you do (both the deploying a global change that opts users into something they didn't initially sign up for and the very concept of making previously private things public). There are separate services out there that one can use if they want others on the web to know where they are and what they're doing. I'll use those if I want to be transparent.
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#159Non-anonymous passive sharing discourages curiosity and experimentation by giving them boundless potential for embarrassment. It's hard to imagine worse long-term damage to users' humanity.