Victoria O.

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.