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Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

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Post by JoelSutherland » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 3:42 PM UTC

samstave wrote: post #9

Quora 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.

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

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Post by yalogin » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 4:05 PM UTC

Honest question, why is Quora still relevant? I thought after the initial hype for what ever reason their traction is gone (as expected). They are nothing but a glorified version of yahoo answers. HN, Reddit and Stackoverflow do a better job at what they do.

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 4:13 PM UTC

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Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

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Post by tronronin » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 4:18 PM UTC

kmfrk wrote: post #105

0x0 wrote: post #16

Quora has gone the way of expert-sexchange, showing up in Google search results for interesting questions, but then overlaying/replacing most answers with blur and "sign up to read". Borderline SERP cloaking, to say the least.

I have always assumed this was what Quora is about, but I have never seen a Quora result show up in a Google search? Is this supposed to be the case for a company with that focus, or am I just not using the right queries?

pose your query like a question, also the query should be 4 words long..

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

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Post by andrewingram » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 4:20 PM UTC

driverdan wrote: post #101

andrewingram wrote: post #53

Early last year, when I was starting to get into using Quora, I stopped using it abruptly when I realised how limited their privacy features are. Basically, I wanted to contribute quite heavily to the Depression topic. I'm a sufferer and I wanted to be able to help other people. But on Quora you have a choice of answering a question either Anonymously or as yourself, the problem with answering as yourself is that all…

Why not unlink your FB account? I don't have FB linked to Quora.

At the time, when I was getting into Quora. I was quite keen to have my Facebook friends be able to find me easily.

Additionally, my boss was the guy who encouraged me to use Quora more heavily, so he was following me already. Even unlinking Facebook wouldn't have changed that.

There's the option of maintaining multiple accounts, but I wasn't a heavy enough user yet to be willing to deal with the hassle.

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

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Post by samstave » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 4:21 PM UTC

mikebracco wrote: post #136

samstave wrote: post #20

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I am not sure I follow your logic here... Either you are being sarcastic, or idiotic. Please tel me which one.

I was being sarcastic here.

Ah, I think I missed the ;) last night!

Thanks

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 4:22 PM UTC

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Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

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Post by 18pfsmt » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 4:35 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #147

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Just an FYI: This is known as thread-jacking, and it is looked down upon here on HN. I would suggest you post in 'Ask HN' if you want feedback.

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

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Post by dhimes » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 4:36 PM UTC

Auguste wrote: post #91

hk__2 wrote: post #85

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Why didn't you deactivated the feature?

In my opinion, it's not enough. It should not be enabled by default, and it should not exist at all. Services like Quora should not introduce changes that compromise the privacy of accounts that already exist. If I hadn't seen this submission on Hacker News, I wouldn't have known about the change.

Completely agree. Facebook paved the way for this bullshit. If they would charge $1/month they would beat Facebook's revenue/user rate and could skip the advertising headaches and the pressure to be slimy.

Re: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously

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Post by saurik » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 4:39 PM UTC

JonnieCache wrote: post #83

cantrevealname wrote: post #44

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My friend was denied permission to use Quora for not revealing his ancestor name. Could you explain how it happened in this specific case, since it sounds like the name that your friend gave appeared to be real. That it, it wasn't something like "Fake Name" or "Bite Me", so how did Quora know? And, in general, could someone explain how the likes of Quora and Facebook decide that a name isn't "real"? Does someone at Q…

>Does someone at Quora or Facebook manually scan new account names? At facebook they certainly do. When you change your name you have to wait for some period of time before it gets approved by a human. The person doing it doesn't seem to give a shit though. It is the fashion amongst a certain sector of the youth to use utterly ludicrous pseudonyms on FB - most of my friends do. I would love to quote some of them here…

I've noticed the same phenomenon (knowing tons of people on Facebook--to be clear, just "normal people" I knew from college--with ludicrous handles on Facebook). It thereby really bugs me when people hold up Facebook as an example of why real name policies are good, or claim that forcing real names is ok because Facebook set a precedent, when it is fairly clear that Facebook doesn't really care.