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Re:Quora pays thousands for posting questions by lordnacho on Sunday December 23, 2018 @06:11AM (#18745501)
> What happened to Quora anyway?

My experience:

- Quality of content has declined. You get asked a lot of nonsensical questions. On the answer side, too many quick and easy, no-more-thinking-required, answers.

- It needs to find a more specific niche. If there's a StackExchange for it, it doesn't need to be on Quora. I'm not gonna ask on Quora about how to use Python decorators. The thing they're good is though, is relating personal experiences. There's a lot of great answers to open ended questions relating to people's personal feelings about various things.

- Discovery is broken somehow. At one point I selected some topics, and now I'm in a filter bubble of my own making. I might like burgers, but that doesn't mean I should be fed burgers for every meal. Changing the topics is not the solution, there's always enough content to fill up the feed for hours.

- Cheerleading. Too many people get upvoted for being famous. Too many people get upvoted for pandering to popular opinion.

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