How is Quora still alive?
Has anyone ever found any useful answers on this website? Every question has someone trying to shill their book or product or whatever in the response. I don’t think I’ve seen a single real “expert” response on Quora. I think the idea is good - actual experts giving responses - but this clearly doesn’t happen in practice. It’s all shilling or irrelevant life stories. Herbal medicine “doctors”, pick-up artists, “life coaches”, “hustlers”, or complete randos speaking (incorrectly) with authority. It is filled with pseudo-intelligent 20-paragraph responses to simple questions. Almost every answer is written terribly, and almost every answer is actually incorrect. It’s infuriating! Do people actually use this website? How is it still alive? The quality of the responses are so terrible - worse than Yahoo! Answers - that I cannot imagine how Quora manages to stay afloat. Hell, Reddit makes a better Quora than Quora. What is the value proposition of Quora? How do they offer such high TC despite such universally terrible content? Quora employees, what gives you a sense of job security? I am honestly baffled - can someone please help me understand? #quora #tech
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Quora is another cringe social networking site like TikTok ... No offense to you OP
Yes, TikTok has many cringe vids, but it also has entertaining and funny videos. And a lot of good OC, half of /r/all is just TikTok reposts these days (with the watermark cropped out because edgy Redditors can’t admit they like TikTok). A lot of people enjoy TikTok and find it refreshing and addicting, especially compared to other social networks. But does anyone enjoy Quora? The experience is just bad. TikTok’s value proposition is clear as day, but I can genuinely not understand Quora’s long term business plan. That is where my question lies.
Curate the contect and personalize for users and sell ads.
I do not think Quora's mission is to source answers only from experts. It aspires to democratize gaining and sharing knowledge from everyone. There are some legitimate folks in Quora who know what they are writing. But also it's full of "life coach" type content writers. Quora's algorithm needs to improve though.
The answers on Quora are like Ted talks:: overthought, long-winded, and most of the time they aren't even correct. They just get upvoted for being clever or told with some weird-ass analogy.
Quora as a social network is just useless. But i find answers in quora better than what i get in google. Lets say search for best movies - ever result on google is kind of marketing material. And quora is slightly better.
It used to be pretty good like even 4-5 years ago. Thr policies killed it.
It used to be pretty good. It went downhill after the partners policy was introduced
I think it’s good
They need to address basic issues before throwing random ML in their ass.
It’s alive only because of some Indian users. I still remember, they used to ban or take down many responses unnecessarily. Their policy makers are little disappointing
I have also noticed a weird sense of Indian nationalism on Quora. There’s always some dude trying to shoehorn India into every response (even when it is completely irrelevant).
Even Indians have stopped using Quora. I remember 5 years ago I used to open Quora and read for hours. Haven't touched it since laat 5 years.