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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by mjcohen on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @04:20PM (#21064196)
Don't know about the idiots. My quora feed keeps coming up with pairs of "What is the square root of nnnn?" for seemingly random integer nnnn. Don't know how to stop it. When I feel like it, I answer "2".
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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by jodrellblank on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @05:48PM (#21064982)
Quora pays people who ask questions, based on how many views their question gets. Now it's full of people spamming as many questions as they can, trying to game it.
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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by thrower123 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @06:45PM (#21065445)
Ah. When they started, they were seeding it with high quality questions and famous answerers. I guess the floodgates have now opened.
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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by bluedino on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @05:48PM (#21064981)
Whoever said "there is no such thing as a dumb question" never visited Quora.

Worse yet, the site is full of dumb answers as well.

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