Why Not to Use Quora

Re:Why Not to Use Quora by techsin101 on Sunday December 09, 2018 @11:37PM (#18645250)

Exactly. Essays on essays being written on irrelevant, hell even if you decide to skip and scroll past any answers that look like ebook you can't scroll enough to skip to the precise and meaningful answers.

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Re:Why Not to Use Quora by chillee on Sunday December 09, 2018 @11:47PM (#18645294)

This is my go-to example of the type of hilariously terrible Quora answer that plagues the site: https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-learn-competitive-programming...

90% of that "advice" could be copy pasted onto any "how do I learn something", and the remaining two sentences related to competitive programming are so vague that he links to the wikipedia page on "Algorithms" and the wikipedia page on "Programming Language"

And that gets you 460 upvotes, far above some of the better answers at the bottom of the thread.

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Re:Why Not to Use Quora by fipple on Monday December 10, 2018 @12:47AM (#18645514)

This answer looks to be written by an AI.

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Re:Why Not to Use Quora by sreeramvenkat on Monday December 10, 2018 @12:53AM (#18645535)

Yes. Apparently from an 'Idea machine'

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