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Why Not to Use Quora
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Re: Why Not to Use Quora
#52All philosophical views aside, there are some really core issues that got me to stop using Quora and unfortunately the case to stop using it is made by the site itself: * The content quality has deteriorated significantly since the site's inception. The content is far cheaper than before and far less interesting in very obvious ways. * Moderation systems have not done a good job of growing the site as a community. Th…
I'm gonna say that #1 is caused by #2, possibly due to an over-reliance on #3.
Re: Why Not to Use Quora
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
This comment is not in line with the site guidelines.
And what exactly are those? Please share. HINT: I've been here for 10 years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
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#55Does the root cause of all these problems with quora come down to being vc funded and needing high revenue numbers and growth rates? Imagine quora was a site driven by the community...
It's a conundrum, only a vc funded site can reach such scale, have great growth etc but when the time for monetization comes, everything starts going downhill. A site driven by a foundation for example, rarely ever gets to any sort of scale. How can this problem be solved?
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
This comment is not in line with the site guidelines.
And what exactly are those? Please share. HINT: I've been here for 10 years.
Site guidelines aside, your wording is rather rude. You probably could've said the same thing without the "get off your high horse" bit.
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#57Quora was great years ago, but now it’s just a glorified Yahoo Answers full of Indians giving non-answers and fake stories in broken English.
This bizarre racism seems quite off-topic.
He absolutely 10000% correct, it is not racism. Quora is 98% Indian (or similar region country people) asking fake questions to "market" their crappy service.
It is incredibly obvious if you ever visit once. (Probably will be your first visit because you didn't notice it.)
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#58Quora was great years ago, but now it’s just a glorified Yahoo Answers full of Indians giving non-answers and fake stories in broken English.
What's wrong with Indians?
Well, in the tech world (especially online), they tend to provide low-quality service and bad codes. Quora is an free Indian-web-service-provider advertising platform. Nothing else. It is frustrating to see all off-shore "developers" coming up with a solution to your problems.
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#59One part of the article that I really disagree with is the part about the Wayback machine. As much as I believe it's important we retain the information we put on the internet, I fully support that if I put something on the internet and I am the creator of such content, I should be allowed to remove that content I created if I wish. This is closely aligned with the GDPR's "Right to be forgotten", yes this is in relat…
You don't actually have the right to be forgotten, even within GDPR. That provision was heavily modified before GDPR passed, and the final phrasing doesn't really grant you the ability to erase all of your content from the internet. (If I recall correctly, the term "right to be forgotten" was also largely replaced with "right to erasure" in the actual text of the law, with the intent of indicating that you had the ri…
Of course, let's not get too wrapped up in the GDPR's actual text. It is "Right to erasure" but is still known and referenced as "Right to be forgotten" as well.
My intent was to put forth what it is describing, which is to allow the user to request the erasure of their information and subsequently that provider should then take reasonable steps to do so.
If that provider, chooses to keep content creators information more central to itself and not allow it to be as widely spread. Then that's more power to the curator and could be something that Quora wants to uphold.
On the same token, just because something has been posted on the internet doesn't mean that the provider of such content is obligated to spread it as far and wide as they want. They are allowed, to take efforts to restrict is movement.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
This comment is not in line with the site guidelines.
And what exactly are those? Please share. HINT: I've been here for 10 years.
Why can't you express your opinion on here anymore?
After all -- it's called "Hacker" News. I'm willing to bet the majority of people downvoting me somehow ended up here or in tech by the dollar signs rather than the "hacking" subculture.
I guarantee you that HN has lost a lot of good conversation due to the constant fear of the downvote brigade (you know -- the "Hive Mind" I mentioned in another one of my comments).
You can downvote me all day. I'll express my opinion when I feel like it.