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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 winmo…
Once 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.
On a side note, what does Quora achieve by forcing people to view the data using a native app rather than through the browser? It seems a little ... pointless, or perhaps I'm being unduly myopic with regards to their strategy.
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How would google determine that the content being served to other users differ from what the crawlers see?
The big fish (experts exchange etc...) are big enough to be caught manually. Programatically they can crawl with a typical browser user agent, from a netblock not registered to google nor announced by their ASes. They'd need to account for the dynamic nature of sites to determine if the difference between different crawls is a sign of trouble, but as luck have it they're already in the business of algorithms and arch…
Apps are just fancy web bookmarks with some advanced abilities (interruptions, native code, state). I prefer to have as little apps as I can get away, so anything that can be viewed in a browser, I view in a browser.
I just want to know if you can get around this forced solution by picking "Request Desktop Site" in Chrome for iOS?
Just 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)
With example.com (which cannot be registered) you know you are not potentially smacking around the domain of a poor company
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How would google determine that the content being served to other users differ from what the crawlers see?
Probably if enough people report them for cloaking: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en
Just 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)
This is a good place to use alsfkj@example.com With example.com (which cannot be registered) you know you are not potentially smacking around the domain of a poor company
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 winmo…
Who would have thought we'd be nostalgic for Experts Exchange.