Quora's principle crime is breaking the sharing nature of the Web and polluting search engine results with inaccessible content. Pretty much precisely what Scribd does.

I get "things you might be interested" emails from Quora all the time. The thing is, they usually are interesting questions/answers (probably helped by all the things I have clicked on in the past)

I used to only get those once a week but now it has come to about once every two days. Good thing I don't actively monitor my "all mail". Lately, I use the search feature in my gmail quite often. People will hunt me down (in person or by phone etc) and ask me about the email they sent me. Then, I go into my gmail and find the email in question.

You can turn off these emails though, surely? At least, you can with linkedin, as I have. I am not a quora user, so I can't talk there.

That said, I usually go with the email-alias trick. Not all websites like emails with a + in their name, so I have a postmap file on my server to map service@domain to my real address. If I want rid of that sites email because they won't respect my unsubscribes, I just remove that alias.

I've also heard of people using the likes of maildrop to /dev/null email they don't want. I have maildrop set up, but no rules in force to delete stuff, just to move.

Yes, you can turn off those emails. All you have to do is un-click 25 checkboxes! http://cl.ly/image/3J2Q3o1M213h/quora-email-settings.png

Holy shit, I thought you were kidding. I am glad you included the screenshot!

For lack of better words, Quora has always struck me as expertsexchange 2.0. There is nothing wrong with being the reincarnate-2.0.-site, but Quora seems to be resurrecting demons and zombies and death we'd rather stay in the ground.

(For comparison, I consider Reddit, with its thousands of subreddits to be a form of usenet 2.0)

Don't forget you'll have to re-un-click them every time they add another point to the list!

Just to hold off on the Quora bashing for a few seconds - I've used Quora since 2011, and they actually have not ever added a new email item defaulting to on (for me at least, maybe I'm in some grandfathered category.)

They've done heaps of annoying shit, but that in particular is one of the few things they haven't done.

Or click the unsubscribe all link at the bottom of every single email they send.

Is this legal after the can spam act??

Every email they send includes a link to unsubscribe from all emails in one click.

All I did was sign up so I could read some answers. Over the next week I was bombarded with emails. I checked the settings and when I registered they had signed me up to be emailed about a dozen different things.

It's almost as bad as LinkedIn. After I turned off all newsletters from LinkedIn, I still got 2 a week that I had to filter in Gmail.

There is a clear one-click unsubscribe link at the bottom of every single email we send, and there always has been. It says: "To disable all email from Quora, visit the following link: Unsubscribe."

I never get daily emails, but regardless, they provide fine-grained control over unsubscribing to these emails. If you receive them daily, you might want to take 5 minutes and opt out.

> you might want to take 5 minutes

If an opt-out takes more than ten seconds (find opt-out, click it, close tab, alt+tab back to email) I add it to my spamfilter. And that means I will never read email from that sender again, not even in my spam folder, unless I am expecting e-mail and (temporarily) remove it from my blacklist.

Stealing five minutes of the lives of each of thousands or millions of people is why spammers are scum.