Quora

I initially had high hopes for the site, as when I first joined, it seemed like a place where people would go to actually share valuable information and experiences, and in a constructive and friendly way.

But I was wrong.

The so called Be Nice; Be Respectful policy, while great in theory, is used as a weapon by so many users on the site to silence those who have the temerity to disagree with them. It is applied entirely arbitrarily, and blatant abuse by Top Writers in comment sections are often ignored by the site moderators. Are they even real people?

Even those who do follow the BNBR policy can find ways around it. You can be as rude, condescending, and insulting as you want, provided you don't actually call people names or directly insult them. Nobody but a small handful of people on Quora is actually respectful, they're just a little more creative in the way they insult people.

All in all, this site sucks, and once I quit and deleted my profile, I felt as though I freed myself from a prison of some sort. Do yourself a favor and stay far away.

I love the concept of Quora, but am confused exactly why the posts I write never have hardly any views. For instance, I couldn't help expressing my opinion for the question, "Do you share your wife?". There were not that many answers. Several weeks after I had written it, I went back to see just how many people had read it. The 'yes' answers had thousands of views, buy my short answer that started with 'hell no!' had ONE view. How is that possible? Did none of the thousands of people that scrolled down that short list of answers somehow always stop scrolling immediately before my answer appeared? My assumption is that Quora's algorithm or moderators must have something to do with the reason the vast majority of visible answers are usually from a left-wing viewpoint and commonly mis-characterizing the people who might disagree with them. It would make you think that there are no people with traditional viewpoints who can read or write. I can't help but suspect that not all answers have the same chance to be viewed by the Quora community

You can call someone a ni**er and you're good on quora but respond that they are stupid for calling people ni**wrs and you'll get a violation.
Adam d'Angelo is clearly a closet racist

The problem with this site is that so many people use it as a bad quality yahoo-answer-search engine and that because of this, most newbies/ people who log on for the first time are put off.
In case you don't know what Quora is, it's a Question/Answer site, where answers can be about anything. There are good writers, there are bad writers, there are catfishes, there are great people, there are teens and there are adults - it's basically the same as all other social media.
You can likewise get followers, and follow people. You can also get hate.
But you can get positivity. You can make friends. You can get advice. And that's what I received.
So, my point is, this site is great, but managed poorly. There are BNBR rules which Quora is actually quite strict for, andthat means that you can report. The problem is that not all fights are resolved properly - but not all fights are worth it.
So I recommend Quora - but you have to be patient to see the true experience.

UPDATE - I take it back. This site has become an Allied Powers-loving, "bro"-hating "Friends"-loving Swede, Dane, Jewish, Scotitsh, Russian, Spanish-meaning Visigothic Hell hole. They openly side against you. GOOD THING THEY'RE SO STUPID that if they give you a ban, you can easily make another account during the ban and they're stupid to know it's you. I'm taking advantage of them right now as we speak. Lots of idiots too. Idiots who think "bro" "is Visigothic slang," as though Visigoths aren't white. Or that "bro" is black or white slang. No it's Italian slang. And Rivera girls are also the most broish
And these idiots who both say "bro" and "brother" as though "bro" must be black slang because somehow it's related to the slang "brother" as in "hey brother." Same goes with "sis".

Site and posters should be reported to the FBI/NSA anti terrorist and extremist division. Full of black supremacist domestic terrorists groups like Black Hebrew Israelites, Nation of Islam and their supporters and Antifa and various Marxist radicals. Moderators support the above openly.

The site survives on deluding users by exploiting them on probably the most basic psychological traps of modern era like the need for acceptance (love n likes), need to be an in-group, need for knowledge, short attention span, information addiction and for the power users, the sense of power and domination over smaller users with little to zero accountability. It almost seems like the endgame of Quora is to be an object of idol worship, not exactly to build a library of knowledge. Quora definitely could do something like re-structuring of the site and strict moderation so it could minimize demagoguery but since there are more pressing needs like making money, I don't even think it's part of their internal policy.

Dissent on the site is frowned upon not exactly because it's part of moderation, but mostly because currently on internet you're a nazi to disagree with popular narrative. In other cases some big players on the site have their egos bruised by other people getting the attention they've been enjoying, so they went straight Kim Jong-un and try to sweep them off the site so they can be the eternal god. It's almost like the inquisition, only without the bloodshed and genocide. What's so ironic about all this is the amount of stake some people put upon such an unpopular site such as Quora. It's so unpopular, rarely ever mentioned anywhere on the internet and ranks so low on Alexa, you have to wonder if all the pretentiousness you have to put up with could ever be justified.

I have for Quora a very mixed love/hate feeling.
I love the concept. Sharing knowledge is really good.
But it has its downsides, like morons asking extremely subjective questions ("what is the hottest girl in the world?" and crap like that), or people asking a question that has been asked a million times, or people asking a question about someone famous who has an account on the website just to get their attention, or people asking a question and never using the website again.
But I like it.
The worst part of it is its USER EXPERIENCE - a word they probably have never heard of. Dozens of things do not make sense at all, from the fact that you can only opt in all email updates or opt out of all email updates but not manually decide what updates you want, to the home page that just scrolls indefinitely (quite difficult if you're trying to click on one of the footer links) to the severely limited screen areas devoted to writing text or comments.
It could be an amazing website, if the concept was kept but the whole graphical approach was scraped and redesigned from the ground up by people with a sense of design and high standards. Hopefully one day this will be the case!
In the meanwhile it's just a "better" version of Yahoo answers.

I hadn't realised Quora is full of fakes! I didn't know it literally pays people to ask questions. I really want to help people, so finding out that I spent my limited energy, as a person in the severe disability group, answering people who just don't care, asking inane questions to try getting cash, whilst you don't get paid to share your knowledge, experience, time, compassion, empathy, or whatever, is heart breaking. It's not that I expected to get paid to answer the questions, it literally never entered my head, it's that finding out I was suffering pain, after thinking I was genuinely trying to help, whilst in fact these people just don't actually care, and there is a double standard of our time being worth nothing. I'm considered an expert in my fields, so much so that I've been relied upon to give statement in court, and yet there are people writing the most hideous questions, to get people like myself to waste our time, just so they can get paid. I was told there is a way writers can make money on there, but WE have to pay a subscription to do that. Erm, first, why the double standard? Second, my time, experience, and knowledge is valuable, which I don't mind giving for FREE, on EQUAL footing. Third, I don't actually have the spare money to pay for a subscription to support a double standard, so that someone might, on the off chance, click to support my answer, to a question they're getting paid for.

I like EQUAL opportunities, not... well, whatever this farce is.

I tried to ask a question on Quora. First, someone (a moderator, apparently) didn't like the way the question was phrased, so my question was "restricted". I fixed the question, and then it was OK, and then wrote a comment to clarify my question and provide context. That was "restricted", and after several edits stayed "restricted". Restricted means no one but you and the mods can see it. I eventually just deleted the question in disgust and deleted my account.

If you think you would enjoy writing questions and comments that faceless, nameless people decide do not in some way conform to a set of vague policies, and they don't tell you how or why you offended their "standards", but they make it impossible for other users to see what you wrote, then join Quora, you'll have a blast.

Otherwise, my advice is stay away!

I understand there is a need for a well moderated chat facility to keep out the haters, bullies and other malefactors, and maintain some standards of writing and expression, but IMO Quora has gone too far, way too far, 1984 (the George Orwell novel) too far. It's really too bad, Quora could be a great resource were it not for the excesses of their writing police.

Quora is laughable especially if you want an honest answer to a conservative question. If you disagree with ANYTHING liberal, especially having to do with Hussein Obama, you will get a message from the "be-nice-be-respectful team" telling you in no uncertain terms not to do that. If you persist with your conservative point of view, as I did, you will be blocked, as I was, and not permitted to say ANYTHING. Quora is a safe haven for liberal puke SNOWFLAKES and not much good for anything else!

If you want to post questions about ANY aspect of sex, have at it. That's all fine. Aside from that, a plurality of questions posted goes unanswered because they are sophomoric at best. There are some posts that are informative, but they are few and very far between.

If you start to decimate Democrat talking points and, God forbid, if you think the Trump impeachment hearings are a sham, you'll get moderator warnings of violating the rules if there is even a hint of an insult in your response to a liberal who slammed you first. You are expected to respect other opinions and play nice. But they never take down a post of a liberal who insults a conservative, and especially the very post you responded to and then received a two-week suspension. If you ask to be shown exactly where there is a violation you will not receive a response. Any Democrat/Liberal attacks, both personal and generic, are allowed to stand. So it becomes, IMO, just a propaganda site for the Democrat party.

If this were a Broadcast show it would be CNN or MSNBC. If it were a printed publication it would be the Washington Post or the NY Times.

If you are moderate to conservative in your political beliefs you are truly wasting your time. You might see 10% of responses to you that are worthy of responding back. But you will have to scroll through ads and insults first. There are MUCH better places to discuss issues.

I guess I was a little naive in thinking most of the members of this sight would be grateful for any positive valid input I could give on a range of topics. Similarly, I thought it was best to convey a pleasant, open, humble and respect worthy mind and character through my opinions, thoughts and opinions. How wrong I was! As mentioned so many times, there's a 'thug like group mentality' that reigns over the sight, and the more insightful and sincere a respondent is, the more aggressively he / she is degraded, humiliated and insulted. Their aim is to get a 'rise' out of you; the more angry and frustrated you become, the more they get 'high'. Once other members get a sniff of this, they come in for the kill, like circling piranhas, looking for a place to bite. And of course they bait you, wanting the carnage to go on as long as possible.
In coming to the site, my aim was to be sincere and respectful, making sure my comments did not upset anyone.(If only I had known what they were really like). The experience has taught me a lesson; don't humble yourself to ratbags. I don't deserve their punishment. Now I'm in the process of looking for a site where people thank you for your input rather than spit at you.

Apparently my post was removed by a moderator for "hate speech". Due to the fact my post was related to OP's question and as a reply to a comment that was VERY MUCH INDEED hate speech, I can honestly say I was nearly floored by this irony. Quara doesn't seem to have very reliable moderators.

I have used Quora for a while and have posted answers to over 900 questions. However, recently they indicated with a thereat to violate my FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. I cancelled the account. Many places on the net (like Face book) have realized how powerful they are in the social media network and use that power to advance their own agenda. To limit the freedom of speech is a very bad thing. That is almost like playing God. While I did like reading some answers as they could provide me with information that I was not aware of but interested in, most of the content and answers are not of that caliber. I would always research such interesting information to verify how accurate it was. I have never liked the fact that many of the questions are just plain stupid or lack so much clarification that almost no one could answer them to a satisfying degree. But I just accepted that as a part of the system. I look at it this way. They can make a threat on line and it is ok - but if I do it, I could very well be in big time trouble. I generally used Quora as just entertainment but when they want to limit my freedom of speech, I draw the line. While some may think I am over reacting, I say that if I think something is stupid I should be able to say that with that word and not be threatened. This does make me wonder what they might be up to.