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Canada
1 review
22 helpful votes
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I will not sign into anything, potentially exposing myself to endless mass-mailings, to VIEW an answer. Why is it that a site like stackoverflow.com seems to have no problem with letting people view content without signing up?

I don't care what quora.com is or what it does, how it's different, etc. They lost me at my very first interaction with their site.

Date of experience: March 14, 2013
New York
2 reviews
15 helpful votes
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Extremely flawed.
April 12, 2017

The site is an question/answer site lets you edit questions for grammar and spelling. Only thing is if it is determined that you're editing of questions changes the meaning of the question you will be "temporarily blocked from editing". Who makes this determination? A person or a robot? Who knows? Sometimes Quora will mark a question for grammar, spelling and/or other mistakes, yet such questions don't always have any apparent errors.

Anyway, I tried to delete my account but it turns I can't even do that, since I signed in through Facebook. I would recommend Stack Exchange instead of this place.

Date of experience: April 12, 2017
India
1 review
29 helpful votes
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No free speech.
Heavy censorship - If you ever thought that Chinas internet censorship is bad you havent seen anything yet, try Quora.
There is no 'right answer' only biased answers which were projected by quora as 'right/truth'
Rude towards users, biased towards so called 'top writers'
Irrelevant answers that get popular because the writer has a strong social graph.
No place for criticism. Too much sensitivity.
Try Quora. Kiss freedom of speech good bye.

Date of experience: April 14, 2017
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Quora was at one time interesting and in some cases helpful. Then they introduced the ability for people to make users pay real money to read their answers or to make money from asking questions. The result has been many knowledgeable and helpful answers being hidden behind a pay wall by greedy people and accounts that churn out thousands of ridiculously dumb and pointless questions each day. To make matters worse they have removed the ability to report these questions as insincere, 70% of questions I see are from paid for troll accounts.
They also allow vile hatred aimed at people and refuse to remove the questions, answers, comments and the people behind them. In fact I believe they actively encourage hateful people, they're banned from other social media because they are so nasty so they flock like flies round poop to Quora. It's fast becoming a cesspit of hate.

Date of experience: July 13, 2022
Washington
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Conservatives are allowed too be openly attacked. Liberals can literally post pictures of animal abuse and human torture.
As a conservative, all you need to do, too be banned, is use actual facts, too call a liberal on their bs feelz.

Date of experience: February 27, 2021
Australia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Chinese lackeys
November 16, 2020

Most of the garbage topics in Quora are written by Chinese government lackeys and stooges. Pathetically stupid commentaries holding and supporting the totalitarian dictatorship's line while criticizing western democracies.

Date of experience: November 16, 2020
GB
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Russian Propaganda
June 4, 2022

Quora makes no attempt to remove even the most blatant pro-Russian propaganda (for example, 70,000 American soldiers have been killed in Ukraine). Attempts to correct this disinformation in the comments are deleted as they are considered personal attacks on the writer of the answer. This is seriously harming its credibility and makes the website seem like a Russian mouthpiece at worst and run by useful idiots at best.

Date of experience: June 4, 2022
Maryland
2 reviews
13 helpful votes
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Censorship
January 21, 2022

The sit says they basically allow debates & things but they don't! If you point out a liar & have the proof that person lied, they still remove your answer/comment for being "rude"! If you mention someone is wear a hat or what ever the way it wasn't designed, you get you answer/comment removed for "hate speech"! I have seen many answers/comments on here where they use the F word & it gets left up!

This site is based & was started by a progressive Californian! They only protect progressive views & censor anyone who is down the middle or right leaning! Censorship is never a good thing!

Date of experience: January 21, 2022
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Quora is not a place for discussion or debate of people's perspectives or ideas, so don't expect to really learn anything here or to get a variety of perspectives on a topic. If you happen to disagree with someone who is too fragile to handle an opinion or perspective different from their own, they can easily have your comment deleted by the moderators, who won't bother to confirm whether or not the comment is actually in violation of any of the site's policies. Why waste your time posting thoughtful dissenting opinions just to have them thoughtlessly deleted? And if you can't interact with others' posts, then why bother using the site at all?

Date of experience: March 27, 2022
Georgia
2 reviews
43 helpful votes
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So sick of posting real stuff and questions, all for quora to say "ob, you have crossed our guidelines, we are sorry there are too many sad little butt hurt people in this world"! That's what it should say! Looks like this country really is going down a sad path! Did not comment bad, horrible stuff, all for it to say the guidelines were crossed! Done with that pathetic lil site. As well as many others!

Date of experience: October 26, 2020
Australia
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Talking to robots
November 30, 2020

The only good thing I experienced with Quora was its real time backup - drafts of posts. Almost nothing was lost, despite countless times that the app stopped working. I'll leave it at that. Perhaps my situation is antagonistic to Quora's robots but I doubt it.

Date of experience: November 30, 2020
Virginia
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Excellent Q&A site with many intelligent questions and answers. I like the site for this very reason, but I take issue when their almighty algorithm decides that one of my questions or answers need improvement. That should be the moderator's decision, NOT the program's.

It'd also be nice if there were more sorting options.

[Updated January 10,2017]

Date of experience: January 1, 2017
Pennsylvania
34 reviews
19 helpful votes
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Do you like essentially answering the exact same questions written in different ways by many different people? If so, you'll love Quora! You might also love Yahoo answers or even hitting yourself in the head with a phonebook until you remember where you actually found a phonebook in 2022...

Not only does answering random people's questions not provide a single modicum of constructive effort to your day, but some find it to be about as addictive as crack-fried crack!

In all seriousness, if you like asking random strangers questions and getting the same caliber of answers you'd expect from asking bus stop hookers for medical advice, Quora is your place to be!

Date of experience: May 24, 2022
Virginia
3 reviews
35 helpful votes
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I have used Quora actively for the past six months and while they allow questions like "why people are stupid?" they do not want any questions or answers that is against their agenda or propaganda. It was founded by two ex-Facebook employees. They definitely took with them the Facebook view of right to censor and control information and history. The site is filled with misinformation and mere opinions. Facts are not welcome.

Date of experience: April 23, 2019
Kansas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Very rude members
August 26, 2022

If you post something here that others don't agree with, you are called unintelligent or worse. I know I am not stupid, but being called this really hurts. Stay away from sites where you will be put down and bullied.

Date of experience: August 26, 2022
Michigan
3 reviews
19 helpful votes
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The site itself has some occasional functionality issues (although it's likely more to do with my phone than the site) but still love it. Been a fan using it for years now to obtain any information I can on things that I'm interested in or curious about, and I recommend it to anybody who likes learning new things and hasn't tried it out.

Date of experience: June 16, 2020

Site is garbage.
December 29, 2018
Previous review

I used to love browsing the site, as there were a lot of interesting and informative answers to questions about topics I followed.

But I've grown frustratingly tired of many aspects of the site, specifically the sad excuse of a 'moderation bot' that marks 90% of questions as "needing improvement". Not only that, but even when questions (rarely) aren't marked as needing improvement and are posted, they barely ever get any replies that aren't either just spam or utter nonsense.

Maybe if the management team actually moderated content quality themselves, instead of leaving everything up to some sub-par sad excuse of a 'moderation bot', the site would be decent. But until then, I'm uninstalling the mobile app for good and will be deleting my account.

Date of experience: December 29, 2018
Canada
1 review
26 helpful votes
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Why would I have to sign in to prove I'm older than 13? I mean, most people on the internet are 10-30, so why not change it to 10 and just not ask? Even 12 year olds know what pornhub is. Maybe they don't want to watch it, maybe they need to ask a question. Instead of allowing me to read an answer, I get a slight idea of what will be said but I need to put my email and personal information on yet another website. No thank you.

Oh? I need to sign in for a review? Okay, creating an account is easy enough, right?

Date of experience: July 21, 2020
GB
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Quora really is a waste of time and symbolic of all the negative things about the internet today and the way the net has disintegrated as useful tool for information. Quite simply if Quora disagrees with what you put it removes it regardless of supporting evidence. One can only conclude that the site exists to push a fixed political viewpoint rather than be tool for leaning or discussion. It hides behind the " Hate speech " excuse to remove anything or anybody at anytime.
Give it a miss if you have any intention of using the net for education.

Date of experience: April 27, 2022
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
29 helpful votes
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Since it's inception and up until recently, Quora required contributors to use their real name. This at least gave most of the answers a modicum of integrity. Since dropping the real name policy, it lost all respectability. I was a user for 7 years before quitting 5 months ago, leaving behind 3,000 answers and 8,500 followers.

Date of experience: March 9, 2017
Malaysia
3 reviews
18 helpful votes
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I spent quite sometime building up answers on this site and had 1 or 2 questions cancelled, which, after appeal were reinstated so I assume there was no real issue. Then out of the blue I was banned, no explanation, no appeal, nothing. In a way Im glad as its 80% full of idiots asking questions like if I had 20 one dollar bills how many 5 dollar bills could I change it to? And Im serious! Its a complete waste of internet space.

Date of experience: February 24, 2018

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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