Quora

You have to dig deep to find anything worth seeing or reading on Quora. That's because there's so much advertising in the feed, advertising embedded in questions, people asking stupid and redundant questions just to keep their space active, etc. You can forget about making new friends or sharing anything important.

In my opinion, Quora is a fairly toxic community. Over half of the users are people who claim to have a PhD degree from Ivy League schools. Users give sub-par answers and sprinkle in various scientific terms that don't apply to the topic, presumably to give the impression of being smarter to other users.

Many times now I've had debates with pro-China / pro-Russia anti-Ukraine posters. I counter their arguments and match their politeness level. As soon as I say something even partially negative (like calling them out on lying) I get instant mass spammed with downvotes, and then my post gets deleted for violating Quora policy. It seems the site has been taken over by some bot farms that are manipulating content... either that or the moderators have a strong anti-Western bias and spread misinformation. Bizarre since it's a western based company!

Quora sucks because:
When they don't think you use your real name, they ban you from their site. And you can't change your name.
You can't deactivate your account 'til 6 days.
Do not have enough words to comment about your own question

It's good because:
You get to learn other people's veiws (some not so helpful)
Freedom of speech! (Sometimes)
Great questions (sometimes)

I had been on quora for a year or so and i used it every day

Finally, I grew tired of the site's apparent liberal bias, Its Inflammatory partisan questions and the left wing trolls turning every straight forward question in to a chance to force their angry rhetoric on the rest

I uninstalled the app, and deleted the account on jan 31 2020

I feel better already

When Quora first came online, it was a great source of information, geared to those who want intelligent answers to intelligent questions. Now, it seems to accept every ridiculous question that anybody asks, and the answers are only as high-quality as the responders. For the past year, I've often opened Quora to a picture of some guy's penis or a woman's private parts. I used to be able to recommend the site to my grandkids who were looking for information about an educational topic. No more. I was enjoying it when intelligent questioners asked questions, and intelligent, knowledgeable people wrote interesting answers.

I find Quora to be an interesting site. Subjects run the gamut from entertainment and advice on personal issues to financial info and politics. In all but the last, it is informative, entertaining and usually worth the read. They hurt their credibility however when answering anything political. They invariably answer with the same slant and sarcastic abuse of all things not liberal and especially as it relates to former President Trump that you might encounter while reading the most famous of the left leaning partisan pages. It truly is in conflict with any kind of neutral forum in this area.

I read a lot so I was willing to read and share what Quora offered, but then there were users whose bias, hatred, narcissism and need to dominate made their responses to comments so vile, it was better to avoid Quora. When Quora became another way for the truly bad folks to censor and harm free speech, I left Quora. I was sad to do that because there were young people using Quora to reach out to adults for wisdom and advise, but the bad people abusing Quora which Quora definitely promotes and protects makes Quora worthless. Down with Quora. It's just a bad group of people no different than Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

There is no actual, free debate on Quora. The so-called "moderators" censor almost anything which does not support a "politically correct," leftist point of view. Appeals are futile. And, it has become much worse over the past several weeks

Very one sided opinions that heavily lean towards new atheism and the political left. The website also has unnecessarily restrictive rules. Sometimes contains good impartial answers, but these must be fished out of a sea of extreme bias.

This was an okay and decent informational site at one time. Now there are many mean comments to sincere questions, fake identities, and people present their opinions as facts. Some answers are good and contributors excellent, but too many people are hateful, give their opinion as fact and now it is a mess.

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

THIS IS AN UPDATE OF MY ORIGINAL 2018 REVIEW. Not much has changed. Quora fails to apply its own user rules. Users degrade the site with lowbrow name calling, a fallback for inarticulate people. Quora does nothing despite lofty claims of being a cordial site. Offenders complain when their victims defend themselves, implicating their victims fraudulently. Unless Quora makes an investment in intelligent human monitoring of its members, it's become a borderline vitriolic site full of hate language, four-letter words, and political divisiveness. We can get that anywhere on the web. So, Quora, what's your value to the online world? Me thinks: Not much untill you commit yourselves to integrity. As of now, you're just another hate site. And, yes, ugly name calling anyone who disagrees with you, incessant use of the "f" word, among other hate language, DOES put you in the hate site category. Shame on you. I was temporarily encouraged to remain on Quora through the 2020 election, but have now left and doubt I'll be back. Too low-brow.

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.

I posted on Quora off and on for several years. Occasionally I would find useful information and enjoy comments from others, but many of the comments there come from folks who post pointless questions like, "Why are cats cute?", or come from those who are into intellectual posturing. My biggest gripe concerned comment moderation, which I feel is biased. Here's an example. I have an interest in military history, artifacts, uniforms, music, etc., from all periods. In response to a comment left by someone else, I replied that it was totally possible to aesthetically appreciate the uniforms, medals, ceremonies, pomp, banners, and other things connected to the Third Reich, while at the same time hating Hitler and everything that he and the Nazis stood for. My comment was removed as "hate speech", which is nonsense. Some little fluff bunny mod or reader got "offended". I subsequently terminated my Quora account. Quora is a joke. It claims to foster "civil discourse", doesn't delete some comments that do violate their policies if they come from a certain socio-political perspective, and does remove comments that violate absolutely nothing. Quora and its cancelling minions at their headquarters in Cal. Can go pound sand.

Nowadays it seems they are blocking people on basis of other people opinions. I said Indian are racist and got blocked

It should become regulated better and have better automated processes, but has fallen susceptible to, and regressed to, the standard of 1 star leftwing propaganda websites with bots and 1-way regressive views

Quora advertised as a higher quality place that offers a wide range of topics to discuss in an 'ask question/post answers/comments' format.

It 'used' to be a good platform but has increasingly become susceptible to propaganda and people who can't take a 'intellectual loss'; there is no point if you can't always shut down a person in argument scientifically/using facts, and you can disguise any smart/winner as 'hatespeech' that needs removal.

The biggest point: you will get punished for being smarter, and faster unlike in real life. By people who are mostly mentally $#*!ed, or cheaters, and suffer Dunning Kruger. By thinking they were 'fighting fascism', they usually censor like a fascist and infiltrate without knowing they are the cause of the quality decrease.

But I give 2 stars because, there are other topics, and it somewhat functions. The censorship is mostly caused by 'the people' and 'lack of regulation', if there are truly trolls and shutins who can't tolerate real facts, mostly leftwingers from the US, it's sort of their fault, and their fault for being susceptible to their cheating and facism tactics.

However, I think these people should be tracked and given a sortof 'lowered quality' status based on removing lengthy posts that withstood argument and criticism, only because they disagree with the facts. (I've also had years old comments, mostly won debates, suddenly removed as hatespeech)

They give a small pat on the back and punish for 'actual logic/skill' at times and don't ever change biased decisions made by moderators, so, that can't be forgiven.

I don't think any platform should 'reward' cheaters and failures whether it's online or not (for reporting to the 'thought police'), so it otherwise deserves 1 star, 2 for the simple ability to ask/answer questions on other topics that could be helpful.

I have been on Quora to ask some questions about society and things that I can't seem to understand, but my naivety has gotten me into trouble with random psychopathic and abusive users. The site has an issue with racism and promoting racist viewpoints. Racist answers with clear white supremacist undertones get the most likes for whatever reason. Calling them out can get you in trouble with the mods, because they highly favor white supremacist content. Oftentimes random people will leave a snarky answer on your question that isn't helpful and serves to bully you in front of the whole community. On the opposite side you have "leftists" that pretend to fight for civil rights and pretend to be for social justice, but in reality they get really nasty with you because you're introverted, have poor social skills or neurodiverse (autism, adhd, PTSD). So these "civil rights warriors" have underlying ableism that you can't call them out on because of silencing by blocking and reporting you. Surprise surprise, most of these fake sjws are located in California! The flakiest and phoniest state in the entire country. There is also a large issue with xenophobia, too many users will think that they're somehow "better" because they're American or always push the fact that the USA is always the "best country" which is more of a personal opinion, but these kinds of people bully others who disagree with them. They also get a lot of upvotes for saying the most horrible ish. Mods love them! But don't you dare criticize the country or military for ANY reason. Not to mention the dirt flinging and toxicity on the topics of religion vs atheism and conservative vs liberal. It's just a shouting match full of slurs and insults, forget about a civil disagreements or respect. I've seen people refer to native americans as "primitives", people saying that black people or other POC incapable of inventing anything (civilizations, tools, electronics, etc), people blaming autism on the child and "feeling sorry" for the parents, dog worship culture, unsolicited pornography, victim blaming, child abuse, misogyny, apathy for the environment, etc, and the mods seem to be ok with it! The mods have allowed a once civil and educational website to turn into a dumpster fire by accommodating to former Yahoo Answers, 4Chan, Reddit and Stormfront users. YOU are the one who gets punished for calling these people out. It's toxic, hate filled, anxiety inducing and bad for mental health. Unfortunately I don't believe that there are any better Q and A websites at the moment that are moderated well.

I used Quora for quite some time. I basically wrote answers based on personal experiences. I had answer views in the millions. One day I logged in and saw there was a message from the Quora moderation (Bots?) team informing me I had violated their BNBR (Be nice, be respectful) policy. I checked my answer that supposedly violated Quora's policy, but I had done nothing wrong. The question was on how long the campaign on an upcoming video game was. I politely replied that the game was not due for release for another month, and the campaign time will vary from person to person. I ended my answer with "I'm looking forward to it myself. Happy gaming!". Really? So that violates the BNBR policy? And as of late, many of Quora's top writers with millions of followers have suddenly had their answers collapsed. Many are speculating that Quora is using it's political bias to quash users who don't meet their political ideology. After a couple of months of quitting Quora, I just received an email from them literally begging me to come back. Nope. I was in the Quora Partner Program and had maybe $40 on my books at Quora, but walked away from it. I didn't join to make money, I joined to share and gain knowledge. The death knell for Quora was the QPP. It encouraged a bunch of kids to make accounts and post literally 1000s of versions of the same question daily to make a few cents (Template questions). It should have been the other way around... pay people for ANSWERING question, not asking! Bye Quora!

Don't waste your time and submit and appeal. (They will never undo it.) What bothers me the most about them is for how they preach that is is such a safe space and not a place for adult related content as a majority of the users are teenagers. So why is it when I say "I disagree" my comment gets deleted but then the guy who says and I quote this person is as "ugly as hell" but then doesn't get banned? This wasn't just one time, but multiple times this same individual did this. Can you guess if they have been banned yet? You guessed it: no. There have been way more serious comments and content that don't get addressed all. Ex: racism, harassing an individual, etc. The only redeeming quality that they have is you will get multiple views on your answer, from many different people. I have usually always had my question answered to my satisfaction but their policies are what is messed. Up.

Many people claim of the liberal bias within quora. Well I can tell you, coming from a progressive Democrat as myself, I actually agree. That may come as a shock but I found that quora seems to be a popularity contest. It seems to be the Super cocky Elite tend to "win" in terms of which answers are placed at the top. Of course quora corporate will say that they have an algorithm that is fair but all it takes is about a month on the site to realize that there is a unfair bias. Quora uses favoritism and actually has a system that gives more Merit to certain people that give up votes than others. Imagine voting in an election and your vote carries more weight. Not cool right? Well, take the answers on quora with a grain of salt. From my experience, I found that the answers with maybe four or five up votes are the most reasonable Solutions the most people's queries. The ones with 2.3 thousand votes, you might want to avoid them.

No Privacy. Quora will monitor your cookies and browsing history even if you are not logged in, they will not respect you unsubscribing from emails.

This company only allows you to speak your truth if it aligns with theirs. They will suppress your truth by deleting your comments. They are bigoted and I will be deactivating my account. I don't trust them.