Kinda sad neither the article nor comments here mention https://ask.metafilter.com/
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Poster: 100 Quora replies: Hi, I'm , creator and founder of <some failing startup/product>, here's <10 totally meaningless> reasons why you should subscribe to my product that does nothing for your question.
I was very active on Quora a decade ago. In fact, they wanted to make me a partner and pay me for my contributions. I was unable to do it due to a Conflict of Interest policy at work. I can see it was a wise decision in reflection.
Was it ever alive? When I found it the site was already trash asking for an account just to see content, yahoo answers was the shit.
It definitely was. I remember finding some amazingly insightful answers from people with proper experience. But that must have been nearly a decade ago now. Some of the most memorable ones were reflections from prisoners as IIRC some prisons had some sort of program where the prisoners could write answers and someone would post them on Quora. Interesting insights from murders, con artists and whoever else.
But it has been so long since that was the case. I've had it blocked from my search results for years now. Utter trash.
The once-beloved forum is now home to a never-ending avalanche of meaningless, repetitive sludge, filled with bizarre, nonsensical…
Oh, so like Reddit or yahoo answers, too?
The UI being one of the worst does not help.
i still use it rarely
Sometimes you'll find a good answer but often you have wade through a mile of shit to get it.
I think the greatest thing that Quora provided was the "Pregananant???" video. Or was that Yahoo?
Yahoo answers
Edit: pregánte
What is a Luigi board?
Quora still has answers to some old math problems so it's not all that useless.
I worry that it will abruptly die one day and we'll lose that. Perhaps someone should be archiving good quora information lol.
This article links to a Tweet of a screen recording of a TikTok of a screenshot of a Reddit post as proof that Quora is “hateful”. Yeesh.
Have you been there? It doesnt take long to come across the exact same thing they are highlighting.
I’m not debating the premises or conclusions of the article lol
Mistakes like this are merely clues as to how much time and effort the author actually puts into their journalism
Since when did it die? Seems like it’s still up and runny to me.
Yahoo answers used to be great
Only for being laughably awful. Quora was in this place where the answers were just good enough that you probably wouldn't be able to dispute any obvious flaws without being a subject matter expert already. Yahoo Answers was only a meme factory.
how is babby formed
gerganant?
Good riddance honestly, never have I gotten a good answer from Quora, seems like they're all trolls. So for the past decade+ I overlook ANY Quora links related to my search
If you had a question that attracted an expert in a relevant field, you'd get a good answer. If your question didn't attract them you'd get a random internet stranger
It was always a garbage site, and it hid behind a requirement to login just to view more than like 1 question, amd it was full of creepy discussions.
People who fucked their mothers, how did it happen? How was the experience? (In great detail) ((Asking for a friend)) (((Only serious answers)))
Heh, I requested my Quora account to be deleted just 16 days ago. It was finally deleted.
I left because it got filled with far right-wings, conservatives and pedophiles. Also many answers are now paywalled.
why not troll the heck outta them
I don't ever remember people taking Quora very seriously. It was always full of insufferable questions and replies.
I think the main stay of taking Quora seriously mainly consisted of reddit posts citing Q articles from Google searches.
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