Re:Why Not to Use Quora
by markus_orlandis on Sunday December 09, 2018 @11:20PM
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Can you expand on your last point? What makes your experience frustrating?
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If you search question X on Quora, you start seeing all sorts of rephrases of X as if X is the only thing you could ever be curious about.
The impression I got is that they more or less just show you duplicate questions, when such duplicates really shouldn't exist in the first place.
If I open a question then I basically get nothing but that question (and similar questions) show up in my feed. For someone who has passing interest in random topics (so I click on a random question every so often) suddenly having nothing but repetitive WW2 tank questions in my feed is annoying. All those topics I was told to select, btw, mean nothing apparently and never show up in my feed nowadays.
I took the chance with their data breach and required password change recently to just stop using the site altogether.
Re:Why Not to Use Quora
by askafriend on Monday December 10, 2018 @12:01PM
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The moment you engage with Topic X, you will be inundated with Topic X in the feed, in your email digest, in additional follow ups asking "Are you still interested in X" and so on.
It leaves little room for true exploration and discovery because 1 mis-click on a topic could change your entire content experience for days or weeks.