I just can't understand why Quora continues ... in an existential sense (why does it exist). I also find it odd when anyone in this sort of community has anything but derision for it. They want to play this identity game and control their users like little children. It's just too much. At least Experts Exchange, in the old days at least, didn't basically ask me for my social security number to figure out why my winmodem wasn't working or whatever.
I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
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Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would google determine that the content being served to other users differ from what the crawlers see?
If it's simply divs masking the content there must be a way to load the page on an iOS emulation, screencap the entire length of the page, and compare the amount of "content" in the source to what shows up in the screencap. I'm not saying it's worth the trouble for Google. Quora is probably the worst example of this bullshit. But it's certainly possible to automatically catch devilry like this, isn't it?
Your proposal actually addresses quite a few sites that put lots of phrases in small font to boost pagerank rating
Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#23Once Quora started blurring answers like Experts Exchange, I had no use for it. You're holding user-contributed content hostage? Go away. Complaining about usability on Quora is like complaining about not having privacy on Facebook.
Yeah... pretty much have to start banning them from my Google search... definitely makes me rage if I search for something, click on what looks like a good answer in Google, and then get a nonresponsive page like that. Rage both at Quora and at Google. A page like that shouldn't show up in a Google search.
Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#24Seeing things like this makes me want to punch a hole in the wall.
Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#25It's one sucky business model. Force people to sign up in the hopes that they'll stick around. It sounds fun, but the existence of services like BugMeNot says otherwise.
I don't think that's the plan at all. This is so user hostile that they must be at the point where they don't feel they need to grow any more (I find it very hard to believe they are still growing with these moves).
Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#26Just opened Quora to see if my user was still there:
User name: Alsfkj Alskfjaslkfj
E-mail Quora probably sends weekly e-mails: alsfkj@x.com
(sorry if any of you owns x.com)
Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#27How much money does Quora have left, and what is their burn rate? Are they making any revenue? It seems not.
Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#28> [nytimes paywall measures] These techniques are wide and varied. They appear to look at your IP, use cookies, use HTTP_Referer, use URL querystrings.
"Appear" what now how? Nope, it's just cookies. Very easy to defeat for anyone who cares on the desktop -- somewhat harder on apple walled garden mobile. But apparently good enough for their revenue, so.
Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#29Once Quora started blurring answers like Experts Exchange, I had no use for it. You're holding user-contributed content hostage? Go away. Complaining about usability on Quora is like complaining about not having privacy on Facebook.
Just like expert sex change, Quora has a way to see the answers without signing in (remember scrolling to the bottom?). Click the datestamp at the bottom of a blurred answer to see it.
As a long-time Quora user, it disappoints me that the content I donate is held ransom in an attempt at "growth hacking".
Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
#30Just opened Quora to see if my user was still there: User name: Alsfkj Alskfjaslkfj E-mail Quora probably sends weekly e-mails: alsfkj@x.com (sorry if any of you owns x.com)
eBay owns x.com