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“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora.
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It was always a garbage site, and it hid behind a requirement to login just to view more than like 1 question, amd it was full of creepy discussions.
People who fucked their mothers, how did it happen? How was the experience? (In great detail) ((Asking for a friend)) (((Only serious answers)))
Heh, I requested my Quora account to be deleted just 16 days ago. It was finally deleted.
I left because it got filled with far right-wings, conservatives and pedophiles. Also many answers are now paywalled.
why not troll the heck outta them
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For me I hated Quora because of how locked down it is. Want to view another question on the site? Must register an account first! No fucking thanks. It was always nagging about creating an account.
Because of this I actively ignored Quora results anytime I googled something.
I finally cracked and made an account
It’s not worth it, you basically get alerts on the account for everything to the point of uselessness
That’s what I have been told and that’s why I have been avoiding creating an account
I found a work around for this even though i don’t use quora anymore here it goes :
- click the question you want to see from the web page . then when the question thread link you want to see appears on your search bar click your search bar and load it manually . Also you have to be in incognito mode for this to work .
Yep, I can’t speak on the decline of quality because it was a site that was early to dark pattern bullshit. It would show up prominently in Google search and then tease “you have to sign up to read the answers”. Uh, no. Reminds me of expert sexchange or whatever that site was that got smashed by stackoverflow for similar reasons.
Umm… expert sexchange?
Experts Exchange, basically if stackoverflow was quora. Can only see questions even when logged in and you’d have to pay a pretty penny to get access to any answer. Or you could collect enough points to access the answer you need by writing answers yourself (ridiculously many points, think weeks of answering).
Oh damn, experts exchange. Takes me back!
A horrible user experience with an insufferable userbase. I can’t believe it even lasted this long.
Who thought it would be great if similar questions overpowered the one you searched for?
Stack Exchange
The Quora experience:
“Hey Quorans, how many carrots go in a carrot stew?”
Answer to a similar question: “Why does Bugs Bunny eat carrots?”
unfunny joke “I have an IQ of 128” sarcasm Anyways to answer the question, it’s because he needs good eyesight.
But even then, there were issues plaguing Quora that would continue to fester. First, an anonymous former Quoran told me, the site started “shortening the length of questions.” The professed reason was to increase Quora’s visibility on Google, but that brevity came with a cost: It also made it difficult for users to ask the types of complex questions that could be addressed by specialists
Ah, I see they started the enshittification very early. It might’ve been a good LLM database, but the good quality content would be outdated by now and the more recent is infested with troll and bot garbage and AI writing. Sad.
I don’t ever remember people taking Quora very seriously. It was always full of insufferable questions and replies.
I think the main stay of taking Quora seriously mainly consisted of reddit posts citing Q articles from Google searches.
I’ve been pouring my life into the Internet since before Quora existed.
There was never a time I recall Quora not being shit. All it ever did was dilute search results.
Any time Quora results come up my search gets an instant -Quora. That site is a wet fart… terrible
It’s like the text version of Pinterest.
Perfect description.
Except Pinterest is good if you know what you’re looking for. Quora has always been bad no matter what you do.
It’s more that it pops up in Image Searches all the time and it’s almost always a useless example of what you’re searching for.
I was thinking it’s like the LinkedIn version of yahoo answers
I would pull it up if it seemed directly related, but just the UX was so awful that even if it answered my question, it felt bad the whole while. Though most of the time it was the most awful LinkedIn-esque winemaking m wind bagging by people desperate to be considered professionals in their field
I only pull up Quora when I want to know the most common wrong answers to questions.
New theory: Quora is an elaborate attempt to poison LLMs
Before Quora it was yahoo answers and it was just as shitty as Quora. The only Q&A sites that are not a waste of time are stackoverflow and other stackexchange sites.
Since when did it die? Seems like it’s still up and runny to me.
I’d love a plug-in to block all Quora results.
Just use kagi
+1 for Kagi, am loving it.
I’ll check it out but have never heard of it.
Marvellous.
It’s sad that so many plugins like this exist.
Remember ExpertsExchange? They charged people for the correct answer but was in the top 10 results. They got blocked very quickly when Google, yes Google, allowed you to block any site from your search. That feature is now gone and you have to specify that in your search terms.
If you are using Firefox, check out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hohser/ You can block certain domains from your search results, works great for me
Saved, thanks.
Thanks.
i still use it rarely
Sometimes you’ll find a good answer but often you have wade through a mile of shit to get it.
The internet sucks ass
Never used it, noticed it was infected with Chinese and Russian propaganda.
The once-beloved forum is now home to a never-ending avalanche of meaningless, repetitive sludge, filled with bizarre, nonsensical…
Oh, so like Reddit or yahoo answers, too?
Quora was just Ask Jeeves 2.0… Both relied on human “experts” and neither could figure out a long term monetization plan.
