SocraticGadfly: Don't get sucked into Quora!

October 08, 2019

Don't get sucked into Quora!

I've been told that Quora, the successor to sites like Yahoo Answers, once had a "golden age."

Maybe Yahoo Answers, or others like it did. It obviously doesn't today or it wouldn't have been replaced by Quora.

Well, Quora has a "sewage department" possibly bigger than Twitter's and it does less about it.

Alt-righters, especially of the Neo-Confederate type, are the worst, as shown in the screengrab above.

But, if you report these people for telling lies about history? Quora does nothing. Does nothing about the Trump Trainers and their rhetorical Trump puffery questions. (I have reported this person more than once for lying about history under Quora's "harassment" for reason why.)

Does nothing about the conspiracy theorists of all stripes.

Does nothing about the clickbait question askers.

BUT ... if you comment to the top person that his answer is a LIE ... without calling the person a LIAR, just the answer a LIE? Quora kills your comment to his answer.

I have HAD IT.

I refuse to cosign Quora's bullshit. That's especially since, unlike Twitter, it's SUPPOSED TO BE a place where people can get answers, kind of like ... Yahoo Answers.

I have deactivated my account and likely will delete it soon.

Go Fuck Yourself, Quora.

To lesser, pre-Trump degrees, I suspect Yahoo Answers, as well as Ask Jeeves and others, faced the same problem — people peddling opinion as answers.

Well, you have to crack down on that right away, if you don't want to eventually lose integrity and reputation. But, given Quora's not cracking down on clickbait questions, it's clearly, IMO, seeking to goose the golden-egg goose of ad dinero.

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