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Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by chaqke »

RockyMcNuts wrote: post #23
astrodust wrote: post #2

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.

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.

yea, isn't this blatant "ghosting", punishable by delisting?

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by dsl »

rhizome wrote: post #219
pseut wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gmane doesn't mirror google groups -- it mirrors public mailing lists and originally was made to reformat them for news readers[1]; some mailing lists use it intentionally as their public archives (emacs org-mode for one) so you might be missing out if you blacklist it. I don't have any affiliation with them, but they don't seem too bad. [1] http://gmane.org/about.php

If their purpose is so focused on newsreader formatting, they should tweak their robots.txt to keep from polluting SERPs.

Google groups should modify its robots.txt to avoid showing up in SERPS. Gmane was around first.

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by reinhardt »

abcd_f wrote: post #187
megablast wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah yes, firebug is also great for stuff like this. Click on firebug, click on the overlay, press delete. Bam, you have your page. Doesn't work so well on mobiles though.

Shouldn't be that hard to wrap it in a bookmarklet.

There you go (not mine): http://pastebin.com/zxzDMYKU

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by MBlume »

zallarak wrote: post #166
megablast wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah yes, firebug is also great for stuff like this. Click on firebug, click on the overlay, press delete. Bam, you have your page. Doesn't work so well on mobiles though.

login form. bam, you have your page. edit. works just fine on a mobile phone.

We do not negotiate with terrorists.

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by MBlume »

RockyMcNuts wrote: post #23
astrodust wrote: post #2

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.

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.

Is there a way to ask google to permanently blacklist a domain while I'm logged in?

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by psadri »

pg wrote: post #49

I think Adam's mistake here is to go too much by the numbers. He presumably has numbers that show that Quora ends up net ahead if they force people to create accounts to read answers. He grew Facebook very effectively by following the numbers. But he may not realize how different this case is from Facebook's. It may well be that for a site like Quora, at this stage in its life, users are not all equal. It may be a mi…

In other words, Quora is trapped in a local maxima.

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by RockyMcNuts »

MBlume wrote: post #245
RockyMcNuts wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Is there a way to ask google to permanently blacklist a domain while I'm logged in?

yes, you can do it from your options http://www.google.com/reviews/t

and there's a Chrome extension http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-...

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by abraxasz »

zallarak wrote: post #225
mrgordon wrote: post #177

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login form. bam, you are being followed around the web. maybe Quora will even decide to tell your friends what articles you clicked on. who knows what new "feature" they've added today

Good point, by logging in you are consenting to their tracking. I must be honest though, I still think it's a fair trade off. I also suspect that making content public might make it worse - people know on HN and Reddit their comments are visible to a huge anonymous constituency and it biases the nature of responses.

Can you elaborate on that? I mean, how exactly does it bias people's response?

The "privacy" of a service can affect people's answer if it is that, private. But Quora is not a super exclusive club: anyone who's willing to spend some time signing up, and who's willing to risk having his posts revealed to his facebook friends because of a new "feature" can get into this club...

So I ask again, what peace of mind does it bring you to know that your answers are behind Quora's walls?

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by [deleted] »

psadri wrote: post #246
pg wrote: post #49

I think Adam's mistake here is to go too much by the numbers. He presumably has numbers that show that Quora ends up net ahead if they force people to create accounts to read answers. He grew Facebook very effectively by following the numbers. But he may not realize how different this case is from Facebook's. It may well be that for a site like Quora, at this stage in its life, users are not all equal. It may be a mi…

In other words, Quora is trapped in a local maxima.

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Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by abalone »

It's even a little worse than loading the whole page. Quora has some sort of poorly implemented background process constantly polling the server for updates. Look at the page load indicator -- it never stops. This drains battery like hell, even if you just have a quora tab open in the background. For a page that can't even be updated.
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