Quora

The ridiculous censorship and removal of any comment that does not pass the liberal smell test is excessive to the point of making the site pointless. Certainly crazy or abusive comments need to be removed but issues such as whether racial equality is real or a myth or other controversial subjects like alleged police brutality or whether some women lie about rape cannot be discussed.
3-21-20 Actually to their credit, Quora seems to have gotten a little better lately.

I got a message to tell me that I apparently broke a rule by asking someone to check their grammar. I don't think I have ever been so pissed off in my life.

Other than that, Quora is a good site. Even if their rules said that they only allow nice, peaceful conversations and helpful comments and whenever I scroll down I ALWAYS see rude comments.

Strange, ain't it?

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!

Overal a nice site, but far too politcal correct. Moderation is very biased, also on the Dutch site. People's answers that accuse populist political parties of racism and other bad things are not removed but allowed while far less 'offences' get removed without given a solid reason.

Bad and biased moderation in cases of religion, oposite opinions on climate change, and rightwing politic subjects.

Opinions that are not mainstream are bullied.

If you publish something on Quora don't expect to get credit for it. If someone wants to make a copy of your work, they can but they cannot copy your name or any other info about you.

When I only started using Quora, it seemed compelling and versatile until I asked an ironical question about banning badly written books... While I partly meant it because I think that graphomaniacs, who poorly imitate decent ideas of great authors, shouldn't be published, I also didn't expect that people will attack me, some with threats. I could have apologized but I wasn't a monster, I just asked and shared my opinion, you have a right to disagree but not to react violently. After this situation, I became more attentive to what others ask and answer. So many questions are just silly and annoying, but of course, there are questions that encourage you to think and even get some kind of enlightenment to answer eloquently and profoundly. I also like many answers, but a certain category of people there are just obsessed with graphomania (yea, again) and I suspect that lots of authors of badly written books originate from Quora. Despite the negative attributes, I still find it useful, interesting, and creative. You can definitely find like-minded fellows there, add them to friends, and enjoy eloquent private messaging or simply joyfully immerse in their tasteful answers. I like when people reply humorously and with imagination. You shouldn't get too serious in this biased realm but if you describe even the most old-fashioned and awkward prejudice of yours in a unique way, it will be enticing to read it. Quora collected people with different intellectual abilities, some answers are surprisingly smart and sophisticated, especially if you deal with science or arts. We'll see what happens next. Hopefully, more witty minds will appear there. ;)

Overall, I love quora, but it used to be much more efficient and useful before. It is always updating and removing good options.

I somehow was automatically given a Quora account via my Google account which was convenient. I was deleted because my answers were too explicit or too honest. They even $#*!ed that I was using my God Given nickname and not my real name. Curiously they kept my account active through a loophole using my other e-mail address which is strange.

Play by their rules only if you like using Quora to ask and answer stupid questions. If you can tolerate censorship, you will fit right in. This is not for everyone.

Hiya! My name is Victoria and I started using Quora not too long ago. Within less than a week I am already close to 200 followers and to be honest, I am thoroughly enjoying myself. However, at the same time I have a-lot of holiday free time at home to spend my days doing whatever, I was hit with the bull$#*! "real name policy block".

Like wth? My name is Victoria Octavia. Kinda cool sounding I suppose, but not fake. It's the name I was born with. Victoria Anise Octavia. But I suppose some asshat with nothing better to do, decided to report my name for apparently it sounds fake. And what does Quora do? Edit Block me. I can't do anything on Quora right now. I can't write answers, make comments, do posts, nothing. I can't do $#*! and it's infuriating.

So what? Now Quora is the name police? Who the absolute $#*! are they to declare whether someone's name is right or not? Sure, I can see Batman or something as obviously being fake but Victoria? Like come on! So now I am unable to use Quora all because they declared my name is fake. That's straight up bull$#*! and downright ridiculous.

So I contacted Quora through https :// help. Quora. Com/ hc/en-us. Sent out 5 appeals. Haven't heard back from them at all and it's been over 24 hours. I did some research into this thing and have heard some people say Quora will even ask for your personal ID... PERSONAL ID... to see if you're using your "real" name or not. They will ask for person information... that's NOT a requirement for any other user, all because some pos $#*! stain decided to report your name. Victoria Octavia is my name and I am proud of it. And I'm not gonna change it to a name that's actually fake just to squeeze on by and appease Quora moderation. Nor will I show personal information just to make Quora happy either. That's not right.

Of all the stupid policies Quora has this is by far the dumbest. So anyone with an interesting or unique sounding name is a target. Hey! Your name is Aaradhya or something? Pffft, ya right. I'm gonna report you and get you edit blocked, even though that name is a common name of Indian origin meaning "one who is worth worshipping". Oh! Or what about "Moon Unit"? That's surely a fake name. Think again, it's the name Frank Zappa named one of his daughters.

See the lunacy here? Anyone with a deemed 'weird' sounding name could randomly get edit blocked. So now I am just waiting, on these holiday days of pure freedom to see if my MULTIPLE appeals will get accepted.

However, there is good news. For what Quora is, a Question and Answer site with the ability to chat with people and create spaces, it's by far the best website out there. Yahoo Answers is a sick joke and nothing else compares to Quora. It's truly a fun website. It's just that moderation sucks.

First, you need to understand how Quora operates. Does Quora need answers that are correct? It's counterintuitive, but no, not necessarily. All it needs are PAGE HITS so it can SERVE ADS and MAKE MONEY from those ads. How does it get page hits? It needs search engines to list Quora "answers" as the answers to people's search queries. How does it do that? It creates a platform where people can "level up" and create authoritizative-looking profiles by writing well-crafted, grammatically correct answers, and then their cronies and like-minded members vote their answers up. Sometimes it's a popularity contest. Other times you'll find dubious propaganda that sadly is no different than the scandals involving facebook and election interference. Ultimately, there is the appearance of a "professional answer" by "experts". The end result is search engines link to Quora's content, creating the illusion that it's actually providing a true answer to your question. In that past this was done by actually paying people to write junk content online. Quora figured out a way to get people to do it for free. In reality, at best, most of the content is psuedo-answers. There is no peer review of these psuedo-answers. This is because Quora allows users to block some or even all replies to their answers. Kind of curious for a Q&A site, don't you think? Sadly it's not an accident - it's that way on purpose. Quora has designed a system that creates the APPEARANCE of professional, authoritative answers. A peer review of those psuedo-answers is not a priority and most likely not wanted. More specifically, information accuracy is completely irrelevant to Quora. Even more insidious is the fact that, if you observe carefully, innocuous content will sometimes get removed by moderators. And, about half the time, the dubious removals seem likely to be at the behest of a Quora-preferred (i. E. leveled-up) content creator who happens to be "very active" on that particular page. It's impossible to say exactly when, but this is probably be the next tech scandal/exposé waiting to happen. To summarize, it's all a WELL-MONETIZED MIRAGE.

You can really spend hours on this site if you are not careful. Lots of interesting topics, lots of interesting answers. But nothing is perfect in this world, and Quora is not an exception. My main complain is that many users are pretencious or disrespectful.
I have seen hundreds of answers beginning with a 'What a stupid question!' and I consider this extremely insulting for the person asking. If you don't like a question, just pass your turn!
Yet, some troll questions like 'Why is Donald Trump the best president ever in history?' gets serious answers.
A good question and answer site, but watch out for the trolls and pompous users.

The moderation system is flawed. Many people's answers get "collapsed" (semi-hidden) for allegedly violating rules such as Be Nice Be Respectful, when such rules clearly weren't intended to prevent their kind of answers. To see many specific examples, simply search on Quora itself for something like "Quora moderation".

I'm not sure whether Quora is too willing to collapse answers that other users complain about, or whether human moderators are biased and prefer to reject answers they disagree with, or both.

For questions that nobody will get upset about, Quora's users sometimes produce very good answers. To some extent, the Quora system probably helps to encourage that quality.

Quora's a great site for those who lurk around, soaking knowledge from different topics from users all across the world.

However, its strict moderation, rigid rules and guidelines, and awful interface that causes lag is a turn off. And, there's a 1-in-a-million chance you'll get your answer answered, since it has to be well written, and follow the guidelines, otherwise, it'll be hidden from the rest of Quora until "proper" editing is made.

I like reading what writers write to difficult questions, and they're not as rude and immature as Y! As users, but there's something missing to Quora. It doesn't feel like you're actually connected to anyone (neither did Y! A have a connection, but...) Instead, everyone on Quora is like a robot, answering questions in lengthy detail.

Lastly, make sure you use your real name, or at least a full name that makes sense. I got temporarily banned because I used a nickname.

You can find some useful answers that may really help you. On the other hand there are many affiliater advertiser people around on Quora and they are promoting their paid service on the community. Because it is about earning a thousand dollars getting traffic! Quora, please be more transparent!

I had been on Quora since Trump won election. Lots of views and upvotes. My questions or answers never been "collapsed" before ever. Exception - spelling mistakes which I gladly correct (English is my 4th language I have learned).
Last week, while answering somebodies question "why so many hateful comments from Russians", I replied comparing Kremlin trolls to lice in human hair and how to get rid of it. Secondly, I warned Quora if they don't clean up the site, they may end up before senate committee like Facebook and Tweeter.
Those two factors were possible reason for collapsing my answer and warning me of suspending. I was fuming. After couple days I just cancel account all together.
There is chinese proverb: "Man stops being smart minute replies to stupid question"
My conclusion is either moderators are very low IQ (if any) or it really infested with Kremlin stooges.

I discovered Quora a couple of years back and it seemed quite novel at the time, filled with interesting tech related answers from various experts in their fields. Later some well known celebrities joined in and it was still fascinating to see what people from NASA had to say or some political people. But now its filled with various self-help and motivational speeches with thousands of likes from seemingly random people which aren't exactly helpful to my interests.

After using Quora for about 4 years, I am disappointed to find that Quora's quality of replies is rapidly decreasing. The power of commercialization..

Quora is an ok webiste. Everyone is talking about the issues with moderation but i'm annoyed with the lack of educated individuals. I thought it would be filled with many people willing to help but only some are helpful. I'm also tired of random people requesting my answer to things. I understand that i write about figure skating a lot but i have no clue how to explain long division to you Janet!

Quora is actually a fun website, but their $#*!ing moderation is ruining my experience! I am moderately popular on Quora with over 600k answer views and around 230 followers. I get several answer requests. I like to read the feed.

But the $#*!ing Quora Moderation is ruining my experience! They are a bunch of $#*!ing communist $#*!s who suppress freedom of speech! They are biased towards liberals, and if you have a conservative viewpoint, your answer or comment can get collapsed. I post several comments and a number of answers criticizing Islam, mostly in response to the goddamn leftists who say the classic "it's a religion of peace" bull$#*!. I back up my arguments with proof and data, and I don't insult Muslims or anything. But despite this, Quora Moderation deletes my comments and collapses my answers about the subject! My only crime is that I criticize Islam! You can criticize ANY other religion and Quora Moderation doesn't give a $#*!. But criticize Islam and you risk Quora Moderation collapsing your comment/answer no matter how nice you try to be or how you back up our arguments. And when they collapse your content, Quora Moderation doesn't tell you exactly what you did wrong. They only say that you violated their goddamn holy BNBR policy. Seriously, I CANT $#*!ING STAND QUORA MODERATION ANYMORE! THEY HAVE EDIT BLOCKED ME TWICE NOW! Seriously, I live in constant fear of those $#*!S collapsing my content. I swear to God, one day those ball-less sons of $#*!es will $#*!ing ban me.

$#*! QUORA MODERATION! $#*!S! SONS OF $#*!ES! COMMUNISTS! SUPRESSORS OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH! I HOPE ONE DAY YOU $#*!ING $#*!S GET A TASTE OF YOUR OWN $#*!ING MEDICINE! $#*! YOU ALL!

If Quora were a country, it would be a liberal communist one where any conservative would get punished for his views! Without Quora Moderation, Quora would be a much better place!

I repeat for the 100th time, $#*! QUORA MODERATION!

Quora is an okay app if you just want a quick answer for a question however it in general is not a app I would recommend for 100% accurate information, it's essentially the new Yahoo answers, it's filled with Trolls and Propoganda, anyone can type a horrible answer and get 1.1K upvotes, if you say anything against either India or China you will have tons of Chinese (Mostly) or Indian Nationalists typing angry replies and ironically enough getting hundreds of upvotes, meanwhile you can rant and rave about how evil the West is and get 1.1K Upvotes in a few days. If you say anything about CCP your answer will get downvoted and deleted, while if you say something about how amazing the CCP/Communism is you will get 1.1K upvotes and hundreds in the comments mentioning how evil Capatlism and the West is, they don't even prove there point, there point is more like "If you don't like what I have to say, then your brainwashed by WeStErN MeDiA" and your racist even worse than Hitler!. Occasionally there are even Nazi Apologists and Stalin Apologists and others who justify actions of undoubtedly evil dictator's. As for other answers they can range to helpful to straight out Propoganda and the Quora comments are as well regulated as Yahoo Answers was before it shut down (Needless to say it's a mess), overall if you want to use Quora use it but Don't expect to be too amazed when using it.

Reading Quora contributor's answers can be both interesting and informative. However, I have to prepare you if you intend to be a contributor posting answers and comments, not just a reader. As an experienced contributor, I got a lot of satisfaction writing my answers and grew as a person a great deal both from composing my original answers and responding to comments. I did all the work and I got out of it only what I put into it (which was a lot), but Quora gets credit for providing such a substantial, widespread forum.

But the downsides of contributing to Quora are also substantial. I can attest it's the true stories on the negative, shocking side that get the vast majority of reader's attention, while true stories on the positive side, insightful observations, or helpful advice are relatively ignored. On the other hand, that reflects American readership in general. I'm always proud of the good job I've done on my answers, so it's discouraging to notice so often answers of much lower quality being just as well received, or better. Reader comments constantly left me feeling alienated - positive or neutral comments resisted further dialogue (they were one-shot deals that never returned my own responses), or they were hostile, ignorant comments that would only escalate in reaction to my rational, respectful responses.

Quora was in the disturbing habit of allowing harassing comments towards me but deleting my own replies when I defended myself. They once deleted a reply I made standing up for dogs against an obscenely offensive commenter. Quora allowed the obscene anti-dog comment but deleted my reply. The offensive commenter had never made any answer contributions to Quora of his own, and had posted a photo of a toilet bowl as his user emblem. Meanwhile I had made dozens of in-depth answer contributions to Quora. Their siding with a non-contributing obscene visitor against a dedicated contributor like myself, who was only sticking up for what's right, made me realize that Quora management were operating the site with a very weak moral compass.

A turning point for me came when Quora deleted an answer I spent 3 weeks working on (32 photos and captions from the Vietnam war) apparently after it was upstaging other answers too much (going by total views, upvotes, and quality of content). When Quora staff clearly lied to me about the reason for deleting it, they left me with the feeling that they lack integrity and have no real dedication to educating readers, only attracting them in maximum numbers.

Yet another issue arose with Quora after I tried to send a private message to another reader and Quora published it publicly as a question. I tried to edit it into a proper question more than ten times and Quora never put through the edit. At the same time they sent me an alert that the "question" was worded wrong even after they gave me no way to delete it from public view or re-word it into an actual question. I'm not sure whether it was a case of incompetence by Quora or retribution, since it happened after my complaint about their removing my Vietnam photos.

The final straw was when Quora started deleting entire answers I'd composed, rudely labeling them as "spam" if I posted them under more than one question that my answer fit perfectly. For two years I had spent a lot of time and effort filling Quora's content with quality answers with no show of gratitude from Quora itself, only more questions they requested I answer to further fill their content. So to have them start deleting the very answers they were requesting from me was crossing the line.

In conclusion, like almost everything else these days, Quora is a microcosm of what America's become, not what it's supposed to be. Regardless of the situation you're in, my all-encompassing advice is to try to live on a higher level even while others around you are living low. When it comes to posting answers or comments on Quora, you'll often find that's a challenge.