Quora

After being a member for a few years I finally deleted my Quora account and it felt so good to do that.
Quora pays for questions and the number of answers they generate and that is where it falls down for me. The number of idiotic questions is just unbelievable. People ask questions and don't even bother to read the answers. These questions are often provocative, in an effort to drum up more answers. There are also very annoying people who only focus on commenting on the answers others have written. I have been harassed countless times, even to the point of being threatened with violence, over nothing. This provided the last straw for me, one guy kept coming back at me in the comments section and when I asked him to leave me alone (in those very words) the moderators deleted my comment and not his, which was much more aggressive. I appealed and lost, which proved the moderators did not even bother reading what had happened, so I simply closed my account. The other guy had written no answers at all and just focussed on commenting, whereas I had been writing answers in two languages. Quora is filled with pseudo intellectual haters and I regret ever wasting my time on it. I'll never, ever go back to it.

I like the format of Quora but their "Be nice and respectful" policy doesn't make any sense and seem to be determined by the whims of weirdos.

There was a question about what the world would be like in there was never any religion?, and I saw that all the other answers were saying that it would be some sort of utopia so I decided to give a differing take. I said we have had areas in the world where there was no religion in the Soviet Union, Mao's China, and so on together they killed over 100 million people and made life miserable for most killing more than Islam. People who subscribe to atheism as a belief system have sliding morals and they would make hell on earth.

Anyway they banned me for this answer and all I did was answer the question truthfully as I saw it. It made sense to me to extrapolate consistent behavior by Atheist in power to the rest of the world and humanity to answer the question. It isn't disrespectful it is just the facts as they stand but some moderator didn't like the view point perhaps. These people are thin skinned and can't handle facts or opinions they don't agree with.

Quora treats me like second-rate garbage. It has a screen message that says I'm "not allowed" to write an answer to the posts.
I have tried to deactivate at least 15 or 20 times and they keep on logging me back in.
Then the screen lies and pretends that I "logged in."
I DID NOT LOG IN. THE SITE LOGGED ME IN AND IT WAS BASED ON THEIR LIES.
I do not know how many users are being coercively logged back in.
This is immoral and wildly abusive.
I should be able to read things on this site without being automatically logged in and then having them lie and say that I logged in.

Quora is a very snow-flakish platform, where sensorship is alive and prospering. It arbitrarily judges what is rude and what isn't or what is free speech and isn't. Their guidelines are not applied even-handedly. As a matter if fact, it is difficult to understand how they are applied because of the level of arbitrability.

I know there are many, many flaws but considering the fact that how much I am benefitted from this website, I can't help myself from rating this website 5/5.

Best things about Quora:

1. Coverage on vast topics.
2. Quite an availability of active experts. Most of the users are the experts on their own way.
3. Great website for marketing and reaching out the targeted audience for free.
4. Ads are less annoying than that of Facebook.
5. Strict policies to protect user's reputation.
6. Contents are original.

Some of the things that the website let's down are:

1. The website goes down frequently, like for 30% of the time in a day!
2, Forced login for viewing and reading the answers other than the answer landed from the search engine or direct link!
3. The app is not as much as optimized and friendly as it could be and should be!
4. Too much of the experimental features tested to all of the users at once. There's no dedicated group of users to beta test the experimental features!
5. Strict policies and sometimes dumb moderators!

Quora is decent I presume, I heard online once or twice but if we can bring back Jeeves that would be a GAME CHANGER…
Ask Jeeves; to bring him back ALL we need is a petition with 10k signatures and Jeeves will be back kicking Siri in her you know what.

ASK YOURSELF. WHO DO YOU NEED MOST?

Jeeves / Don Cheadle 2024!

Every vote counts.

I had an account on Quora for 6 months before I was removed/banned for not toeing their little line.

Don't get me wrong, the site has some intelligent writers on it, but like everything post-2016, they're intolerant of anything that challenges their world view in the political(and meta political) arena. Blanket catchphrase statements like "facts have a liberal bias" and other Colbert slogans are pretty much the norm.

My advice, if you're young and need help with a book report, Quora may be able to help, but anything that requires dynamic thinking outside of the conventional, quora is not the place. Expect a lot of hand wringing, social/tribal signaling and moral preening if you ever query a topic that challenges mainstream dogma.

My biggest problem with quora is they try to act like arbiters of the ultimate objective truth. Like a growing number of people, they don't seem to understand where opinions end and facts begin. Hopefully, in the future they'll create a friendly environment that invites a diversity of opinion. I won't hold my breath though.

After years of quality input on quora (I call it quality because I've had tens of thousands of views and thousands of 'likes') I received an email saying my account was blocked because I used a shortened version of my name that just happens to be a proper name in itself, which is considered against their policy. For instance, if your name is Peter, you can't give Pete as your name. I explained that I've spent 8 years being followed around the internet and in real life by a stalker who has all but taken my life away. I received an email today from them that they're 'unable to' help. Either they aren't interested or their web team have no control over the site - I know which one I'm guessing at. They also told me they refuse to unblock my account unless I update my profile with my full name. I can only assume their name policy is more important than ensuring the safety of their members. Surely quality content is more important than what people call themselves? I'm wondering, if I was born male and changed my sex, would they still insist on calling me male? In the UK that would be classed as a 'hate crime' and can mean you're looking at a prison sentence.

It's also well worth remembering that if you don't always hold popular views and refuse to attack the people they disagree with, you might as well not waste your time on quora, personal attacks and vexatious reporting are very much a thing - but that's acceptable, just so long as you use your real name.

I have been on Quora a few times and each time I became discouraged by the blatant political bias and targeting committed by the moderators for the site and eventually deactivate my account. I've had people directly insult me for no other reason then them not liking my political affiliation or beliefs based off my answers and replies with no response or consequences from the mod team. However, I've called out the insults and end up having my comments mass reported and deleted for "breaking" their selectively enforced policies. The only redeeming quality this overtly biased joke of a site has is some of the small communities. And even still, those communities have overly antagonistic and insulting questions leveled at them on a daily basis with, as you can guess, no response or action by the mod team. All I can say is find a site that both respects it's users enough to enforce their rules across the board regardless of political views and don't directly moderate against certain users based off otherwise innocuous comments that don't fit their blatantly biased mods views and results in selective enforcement of their policies.

The previous comments made by these two users 100% align with my experience on Quora:

"Amanda S.
Finally decided to close my account recently as moderators do not respond and allow one upmanship where people group together and harass genuine writers.

Bruce s.
You can be respectful & helpful with your answers at quora, but the moderators support the trolls & low life's & harass the good people that contribute worthwhile answers there"

Quora's number 1 problem is it's moderators. I think Quora is based in India, and I don't know if there's some sort of cultural disconnect. They apply their 'be nice be respectful' policy in the most arbitrary and inexplicable manner. They censor non-troll answers, while allowing trolls to gang-up on legitimate writers. I had 1.2 million views on Quora and I recently deleted my account. They're actually a lot of cool, respectable people on Quora. 99% of the support I received was from people like this. But Quora allows trolls to bully other people, and run the show.

I personally believe some of the trolls have relationships with the moderators, because the way they apply their policy makes no sense. And as long as they allow this dynamic, their website will never reach it's full potential. They'll end up with nothing but uninformative trolls & moderators at the rate their going.

Quora censored my poetry, then censored the truth that they censored. Another worthless entity leveraging people for what they can squeeze out of them, but not respecting their opinions

Quora is full of fake accounts trying to drum up business for themselves, moderators who are keen to stand up for bullies and quick to censor people who challenge them, and of course, it has some of the dumbest questions on earth being answered by people who don't know their $#*! from a hole in the ground.

Just another low-rent online site clinging to life by the thread of stupidity. It's one shade below Reddit, and Reddit is also on its last legs.

People would do themselves a real favor by going to official sources for answers or reading books again. The internet is not the place for serious discussion. I had a comment on here deleted because someone was offended that I stood up for a disabled person who was accused of using "the victim card."

Wow, sorry, didn't know it was beat up on disabled people year on Quora. Quora is a shining example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. It's a whole lot of people who've read three paragraphs about a certain law or historical event and believe they're experts.

Quora is a propaganda website, where there is no free speech and no freedom of opinion. Moderators fiercely push their political agenda, censoring anything which goes against their agenda, regardless whether it is factual or not. Quora is designed to whitewash the truth and present only one specific answer on many topics. An example is the topic of Israel and Palestine. Quora will ban answers, comments and accounts of anyone who supports Palestinian rights, whilst they will promote those who support Zionism. They will even promote for example extremist anti-muslim views, such as people claiming that muslims want to kill all non muslims, claiming lies there are no minority religions in existence in any muslim nation, they are happy for these comments to be on their site, but they will censor and ban a person who responds against this! (See photo for proof).

This is just one example, where quora moderation is extremely anti muslim, anti palestinian, pro judaism and pro zionism. I am sure there are many other exampes where quora moderation are pushing their agenda whilst whitewashing and censoring anything which goes against it.

I was a member of Quora for about say 5-6 years. I would posts comments, etc, and even answer questions. And go on about my day for several months.

Whelp! After 6 or so years, one of the moderators woke up, and started doing their job. Reading posts. There must have been a post this mod didn't like, or some other mod didn't like, or they finally drank the right roast of coffee with extra caffeine in it, and BOOM.

I was hit with the "You can't post here anymore because we don't know you're real name."

Hell, after 6-7 years. You've had that policy in effect since probably 2016 or maybe even earlier, and in the year 2019 you finally realize, "Oh! Gee! We can't have this!". BOOM! Heads will roll by gawd.

Well, by that time, i've already gave my answers, posted whatever it was that i wanted anyway - and moved on anyway. So BOOM back at ya.

Trust me, they'll read this post and they REALLY won't want me back.

So BOOM. That's the sound of the door hittin' ya where the good Lord split ya' on the way out..