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Australia
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Nihilistic site which is the exact anti-thesis of everything which Wikipedia have taught themselves and the rest of us. For Wikipedia, the stringent editorial guidelines; fact checking; the insistence upon reliable references; the collective wisdom which comes about through good-faith dialogue as part of the "talk" section of every article etc means that generally the True and the good overcomes the false and the bad.
On Quora, the exact antithesis is the case. Textbook example of "crap in, crap out" in extremis"
Anyone can write anything. There is an idiotic notion that "down-voting>collapsing answers" is somehow or other an epistemically sound principle.
Moderation is conducted mostly by bots. Or else by giggling half-wits of the sort that make Infowars look like intellectuals.

All answers are stolen by Quora via data-farming and then the information is sold to mind-poisoning companies such Cambridge Anal.
There are many paid agents on there who are there to form public opinion and to harass and bully truth speakers so that other people won't believe what they are saying, they create fake posts to discredit things which have been put on there to inform you of specific topics. There is a clear agenda with Quora for public opinion Intel gathering and the shaping of public opinions and beliefs. Paid agents step in to discredit or to promote the agenda for which they have sold their mercenary "minds".

1. Quora are agents of exploitative and mercenary Capitalist anti-Reason. They data-farm and then sell this data to the highest bidder. These bidders are inevitably the power-elite of various stripes: oligarchical class-warriors; military colonial Zionist ultra-nationalist hasbarists; alt-fact Trumpite Cambridge Anal like companies of misinformation and agit-prop; climate science denialist lunatics; etc, etc.
2. Quora will remove all answers and questions which deviate from the agenda of their latest paymaster.
3. Quora is plagued by a military swarm of paid agents to discredit controversial the True and the Good, understood in *objective* and *universal* terms.
4. Quora is tool of propagating misinformation and agit-prop.

Date of experience: February 21, 2020
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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This is ridiculous. I was just asking if I was the only one who liked 2022. I don't UNDERSTAND why the heck ANYONE would do that!

Date of experience: August 4, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Quora CAN be an excellent resource for conducting research, exchanging ideas, and finding intelligent/ well thought out/ well written/ informative answers presenting different sides of major issues.

In THEORY, it is a wonderful forum for free speech and debate--giving everyone a voice to express their opinions and positions on a wide variety of issues, regardless of how good, bad, well/poorly thought out, taboo, or outright bizarre that opinion or position may be. That being the case, you will find questions and answers on a diverse array of issues ranging from the important to the unimportant. The ridiculous to the sublime. The intelligent/ well though out/ well written to the downright idiotic. So you have to do some sorting of your own--essentially, you have to take the good with the bad. This sorting thru to chaff to get to the wheat is easy to do and essentially impossible to eliminate in the context of the free and open exchange of ideas.

However, in PRACTICE, Quora falls far short of living up to its potential because of its apparent complete lack of protection against the personal biases of the people who review the questions and answers (and therefore decide if a certain question or answer will be allowed or removed). Because Quora provides almost no substantive information on it's posting rules or review process in general or it's decision-making process in specific situations (choosing instead to cite it's woefully ambiguously and generic "Be Nice, Be Respectful policy"), it is impossible to conclude whether 1) there is a general, institutional bias within Quora on issues in one direction or another, OR 2) proposed questions and answers are subject to the vagaries of happenstance, I. E. - which particular reviewer reviews your question on a particular day (and what his position is on the issue, what mood he's in, etc).

Because of this, as it stands today, Quora is generally like a poster boy for PC-ism at its worst. So, while it does have a lot to offer, Quora falls way short of its potential. Unfortunately, it's highest and best use is checking whether a particular question/ answer/ position/ argument/ etc is politically correct.

So, if you have a thought and need to gauge how politically correct it is, simply post it on Quora. The longer it stays up, the more PC it is. This is a shame.

Date of experience: January 24, 2017
New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Fascists
April 26, 2020

Quora is a Fascist organization where censorship rules. Remember Fahrenheit 451!

Date of experience: April 26, 2020
GB
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Far left mouthpiece
June 23, 2023

Full of intolerant left wing muppets, disagree with the party line and you are banned immediately!

Date of experience: June 23, 2023
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India
1 review
28 helpful votes
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Your answers are collapsed because, a moderator doesn't know what he /she is doing .

Date of experience: October 30, 2016
California
4 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Very useful if you need up to date answers from credible sources.

Date of experience: January 15, 2015
Romania
18 reviews
68 helpful votes
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Their policy of using only real names ruined the website. I feel sorry for them.

Date of experience: December 2, 2013
Romania
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Easy to use!
March 8, 2016

Quora is easy to use and I personally like it a lot. Most of the answers are really helpful.

Date of experience: March 7, 2016
California
1 review
16 helpful votes
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Terrible business model - I'll never give them all that info.

Date of experience: March 19, 2016
Washington
1 review
5 helpful votes
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If you think Facebook or Twitter is bad when it comes to propagating fake news, nauseating virtue signalling, and toxic cancel culture, you clearly haven't seen Quora just yet. Thank goodness it's nowhere as important nor relevant as other social media. At least people on Facebook don't pretend they're building a so called library of knowledge, so the $#*!storm they produced is pretty typical of the internet. Quora on the other hand is a different story. It pretends to be something it's not, and it reflects in the kind of users it tends to attract. Pay close attention to what kind of users stay and who left the site and who decides who can stay or leave, because it's pretty telling of what kind of folks Quora is made of.

The site was built with a seemingly noble intention but clearly it has shown itself over the years to have no clue into which direction they're carrying the site. If history is anything to learn from, I can bet my penny there won't be any kind of library of knowledge built by attention seeking sociopathic snowflakes and tribal crybaby cancel mobs or con artists and losers playing the internet tough guy card behind the comfort of their own homes.

Truly this is the tragedy of our times that the internet have come from our hope to make a better society to such state where it provided platform to those who clearly don't deserve it. Sociopaths, cowards, losers, liars, shills, narcissists, idiots, bullies... the list goes on... all roaming around free and actually celebrated for destroying people's lives. Meanwhile folks who are kind, providing value to others and with good intentions got pounced, slandered, bullied, doxxed and cancelled. All these for what kind of higher purpose exactly? We might as well go back in time and reenact chopping off heads in public. At least, seeing real people unjustly and wrongly murdered before their eyes because of their own foolish hasty judgement like that will surely give these snowflakes something real to think about for once and hopefully a major trauma that might finally mentally paralyze them enough to not return back ever again to the internet.

Date of experience: July 10, 2020
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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God awful
June 1, 2020

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Date of experience: June 1, 2020

Overview

Quora has a rating of 1.6 stars from 611 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Quora most frequently mention social media, hate speech and left wing. Quora ranks 79th among Question And Answer sites.

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