Quora

Quora have had some great contributors. Now they're thinning in numbers because of bad experiences and unfair moderation and it is because Quora management themselves have made the site totally unfriendly especially for newer users aspiring to succeed in the platform, especially if they have unpopular opinion. I will explain.

There are some really good writers in Quora. Not all of them are as successful or popular, unfortunately, which is a shame but the real problem is over the years Quora made it very difficult for new writers to have their own career without finding themselves at the mercy of power users. I think people should realize popularity of a user isn't always equal a sign of deep insight or good character and it shows. I can say for certain most popular users are average, and while some genuinely earned their place, some obviously just got lucky and are enjoying their platform with thousands of followers. That's not a problem on its own but what often happens because of the structure of the forum, some power users are prone to play god and think they decide who gets to be popular next. This naturally made some people feel moving around the lawn more difficult the more they get more popular because some users will start to pay attention to them and inevitably, if they said something wrong and accidentally offended some popular users either deliberately or by mistake, their career on the platform is practically finished.

That being said, when I see the newer batches of popular users it's like seeing the emperor's new clothes. They are being made to think they have their success because of their skill, talent, etc and they truly believe it. But that is not the whole story. As I said earlier, some people think they can play god. So some will decide in advance which new writer gets to be popular by deliberately promoting them regardless to make them feel good. Then they will trash the ones they don't like in the dumpster hopefully never to be seen again. No one dared to say anything, partially because of the BNBR rule and partially also because most people will find it's just not worth the time. A lot of people have seen many problems with the site and users and reviews will tell you that.

In the meantime Quora loyal users are like the emperor who thinks he's parading with his new clothes but little did he know he's being made a fool. Just like Quora users, it's only a matter of time until someone just call out that they got no clothes on, and they're being made to think they worth more than they are.

Clickbait trash website. Quora PLUS LMFAOOO. I love how disgusting some places have become. Infected with all the trashy ideas of neediness)))

After seeing some of my favourite writers backed down and left the site for good while the jerks and bullies getaway with it I lost all my faith to Quora. I also don't like the fact many popular writers are such assh*les because of their popularity and condescending beyond measure thinking they own the place or something. These people really need to get a god damn grip like for real. So many people are so up their pieholes about their opinions and try too hard being armchair experts on every topic without credibility and minimal fact checking, it's pretty scary when opinion based answers could get so much upvote when you can Google search them yourself and find their answers are WRONG!

What also really grinds my gear though, when some really popular users don't like someone for some reason, often they WILL gang up on them and suddenly go fckin Sherlock and Sigmund fckin Freud on them stalking their profile and nitpicking $#*! and psycho fckin analyzing every single word they say and try to frame it in the worst possible light in order to kill their reputation. Like F*CK are these people fckin real? It almost feels like I'm seeing example of that infamous Trump Derangement Syndrome only this time they do it to people they don't like. But no one speaks up because they're afraid they'll be the next target or else they be getting random Bnbr for standing up to these bullies. $#*!ttttt fckkkk just DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT! It's not worth it!

And a sewer-haven for despicable people. I had my IDENTITY stolen, and a credit card hacked. BEWARE!

I was on Quora from about 2016. I am still there, but hardly ever post or answer questions. I just got fed up with the draconian and Kafkaesque moderation. I don't know if the moderators were bots or just real pompous Americans. Possibly both. I soon learned to block negative comments, but the trolls would get by that by posting on other people's answers to the same question. I was always polite, except for when one commenter questioned whether I could have been an inspector for both Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (UK government regulatory bodies). I am on Linkedin and post under my own name, and my CV is there for all to see. I was a special terms inspector and consultant for both institutions and was qualified in both child care and adults care, as most qualified social workers of my age would be, and in any case had a post graduate Diploma in Education as well as the standard post graduate Qualification in Social Work. The troll couldn't even spell Ofsted (he spelt it "Ofstead") but he riled me enough for me to call him out on it. Yes, I know that's a mistake with trolls, but there you are. The troll thought it amusing to report me to the moderators and my account was suspended and I couldn't even get back my thousands of answers. So they took the side of the troll, despite the troll having virtually no other posts and me having millions of upvotes. I took the view that the troll had done me a favour and stopped me wasting my time on Quora. When I started with Quora in 2016 they made a big thing of you having to be a genuine real person. Well, if you look at it now, it's all joke names and joke questions and joke answers, interspersed with malevolent trolls' comments. It's gone the way of Yahoo answers and Twitter - the same reason why Elon Musk pulled out of buying Twitter. It's a real shame as I used to enjoy the old Quora, but it has gone so far downhill it's now a waste of time. Glorified clickbait fodder.
I should add that there is virtually no testing of the validity or usefulness of the answers, so if it's something practical you want to know, look elsewhere, or at least be very careful of following some of the advice.

I just closed my account down on Quora after several months. I had gone on there because I liked to write, and I am at home a lot due to health issues. But it didn't take long before I started feeling as though everything I wrote was being pecked at by other Quora members. I was regularly being insulted, presumed stupid, mocked, criticised, and just given a hard time when I never provoked it. And this includes Quora's own moderators, who would keep slapping me with violation notices for nothing - I had no idea what I wrote that was so wrong. But I would get the violation notice and it would not explain what I wrote that they felt was in violation. I also got violations if I tried to stick up for myself when someone attacked me. They were allowed to attack me, but I was not allowed to defend myself. Wholly dysfunctional, that.

Then I was made moderator by someone, which at first I thought was really cool, but within just one week, I was finding that the questions I would post to this space were being attacked by some of the other people - mostly men - in that space. I was trying my best to post good questions, but it didn't matter. They would get attacked. So I messaged the Admin, who was one of the few kind people on there, and told him I didn't want to be moderator anymore because of all the crap I was getting, that I felt bullied. So I was brought back down to contributor. But even when this happened, I would still get picked on when I answered anything or commented on anything. So I stopped being a contributor. The admin noticed, asked me back, and for him really, I came back on there, but I didn't really contribute much, purely to avoid more grief.

And so I would just stick to answering questions outside of that space, or commenting on posts outside of that space, and I would never be the one to start of being provocative. Not once. But soon as I would utter a word, I would be attacked by someone, and sometimes, a few people at once.

I had a lot of really nasty things said to me, none of which I deserved. I am not a nasty soul and I am not the type to be horrible to people, and I had been on Quora defending vulnerable people and challenging racist posts.

And it just got worse and worse, and Quora kept slapping me with violations when I was the target of the abuse, not the instigator, and I had enough. For my own sanity, I closed my account.

Quora is the single most bullish environment I've ever encountered in my life. Far worse than school, far worse than any job I've had, far worse than anyone I've ever worked with. It is a horrible, nasty arena.

If you are vulnerable in any way, avoid this site. Because these people will suss it out, and peck at you until you either close your account, or top yourself.

Shame on you, Adam (owner of Quora)

A swirling pit of pseudo-intellectuals, alt-right morons, out-of-touch old people, and outright liars. I would hazard a guess that around 70% of questions are clearly loaded and biased political questions that everyone with two brain cells to run together and an EQ over 7 already knows the answer to and that are only posted in a pathetic attempt to feel vindicated for holding a completely backwards view. Other than that there's people asking nonsense questions about who would win in a fight between two fictional characters from entirely different forms of media, how to do basic tasks, kids too lazy to cheat on their homework the old fashioned way, people, thinly veiled insults against political pundits and calls to action for some nonsense that isn't actually happening, and maybe 5% actually legitimate questions looking for legitimate answers.

The answers are even better. Any question having to do with guns, self-defense, crime, race, sexuality, gender or anything else of that sort will almost instantly result in a berth of anecdotes that clearly never happened from people definely not trying to prop up some conservative viewpoint or regurgitating right-wing talking points that they most certainly didn't hear from an ill-informed conspiracy theorist's podcast. That or they just use it as an excuse to show everyone why their kids don't talk to them anymore. The cries of "censorship" and "powermad moderators" are really slaying me because if Quora staff was actually intentionally scrubbing any and all hateful, harmful, bigoted, or unpleasant rhetoric and misinformation (and the proponents of it) from the site, I'd estimate there would be about 60 people left on the site. It's not even good for fans of aspects of culture to use as a discussion board because it almost always devolves into pedantic squabbling until someone brings up something political and the whole question explodes.

Quora is a bad site populated almost entirely by awful people that only serves a function by somehow being 40 different echo chambers in one place. Sorta like Reddit but somehow much worse. Don't use it, even for its intended purpose. If you have an actual question about something, you'd probably be better off opening your window and screaming it into the night, at least then you can see the idiot who just confidently gave you the wrong answer with your own eyes and there's an almost 0 chance that it's going to somehow end up transforming into a 100+ comment chain about someone lamenting why white people can't say racial slurs.

PS. I've read through about 50 other 1-star reviews, the fact that you people are confused as to why you were banned would be funny were it not so disheartening.

I'm just gonna add to the mountain of bad reviews already in place. This site is rated so poorly for a damn good reason and if you wanna know why check other reviews they'll tell you what you need to know. The website needs you to login to read answers that's already a big turnoff and to top it off they require you to use your real name which is just straight up privacy breach. Most contents are average, borderline useful but nowhere near as great as the users there made it out to be. When I was reading some of the things written there can't help but to feel these are the type of people that never really get their asses handed to them in real life. The condescension and arrogance can absolutely get under your skin and sometimes it can make you wanna give a good hard smash to the face of some people there if you ever meet them.

The peculiar thing about the site, is the amount of views some answers get. I have to note again it's a closed-off website which requires login to even read answers made me wonder whether any of the views were real people reading or just hired bots. It is ridiculous, there is no way someone can go over 300k views with a single answer while average users there are getting below 100k. Then what's worse, there is virtually no demographic tools content creators there could use to check on who's reading what and where they're coming from. So you're left there wondering who on earth read your answer and where are they coming from, what their gender is or how old they are. How is that even a good thing for a website that demand you to breach your own privacy by the real name policy yet they can't even give you anything back as a contributor? It's so suspicious. Now they got their own privacy breach last December it was a delightful sight but they didn't seem to learn anything from it and went full damage control instead of addressing real issues with their site.

Now you might wonder now being such a place, is there any positive qualities left? There is. There are definitely some reliable experts and writers who would reveal to you great insight about many things under the sun, but most of them can't keep up with the more banal and childish content more relevant to the site users. Let's just put it this way if you are a truly accomplished person who has a lot going for you in your respective fields, being a pretentious $#*! on the internet telling everyone else how special you are should be the last thing that come to mind. Fact is most of us barely making it in life and to be so deluded by internet fame on an elitist website famous for being echo chamber won't do you any good. It actually sends the opposite message. Remember the saying birds of a feather flock together? Losers too have a tendency to do that to feel better about themselves.

If I could give half a star to Quora, I would.
After 15 months on Q, I earned 12 Top Topic badges ( even its founder only holds 2), 1,600 answers, 1.1k followers, having my answers in over 650 digests and 2.1 million views. But being popular on Quora makes you a target for its ridiculous, over policed policies. And because the site is grossly understaffed, Quora actually doesnt question trolls who may turn you in for imagined slights. My account password WAS HACKED BY A STALKER ON QUORA; I SENT IN 50 requests to get the back door closed on my account. QUORA MODS FINALLY RESPONDED BUT AFTER GIVING ME THREE PASSWORDS THAT FAILED, they thought I got in but I didnt. SOMEONE DID BUT NOT ME. They never fixed it. The virus spread into my email account. Further, if you become vocal on Quora, they surpress your views and upvotes. It is as if you are writing in a void. QUORA IS QUITE HACKABLE, Google how the CEO of Google had his account hacked on Quora. Adam dAngelo founded Quora hoping to start the library of Alexandria, it is more akin to Larry Flints bookstore. YOU NEED STAFF TO POLICE A SITE OVERWROUGHT WITH SOCK PUPPET ACCOUNTS AND TROLLS.
GO GENTLY INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT KNOWN AS QUORA, its days of high intellect are long gone.
I actually had to pay a hacker to get me a password so I could delete my account. That is scary...

At first, when I joined Quora, it wasn't that bad of a website. It seemed like just any ordinary place for people to ask questions and answer them. Well, here lately, things have taken a great turn. I've gone down a few rabbit holes on Quora and have found really disturbing questions such as people asking if it's normal for daughters to have sex with their Dads, and Mothers to have sex with their sons. I'd find pedophiles replying to these questions, admitting that they have sex with their underaged daughters and how it's an acceptable activity every Dad should try out.

I've reported these pedophilic comments, as well as profiles I've found of young girls posting their nude pictures to Quora, which counts as child pornography by the way, that Quora also does nothing about. But if I dare make a comment toward the pedophile calling their actions sick, or even so much as saying I've reported their profile, my comment gets removed by Quora for "violating their policies." WTF? I found one guy in particular who talks about how he has sex with his 7 and 9 year old daughters, posts their pictures calling them "sexy", and no matter how many times I've reported, his profile is still up and about.

Quora seems to be a safe haven for pedophiles to say and do whatever they want. It would be one thing if these pedos were just no contact pedos, venting about their taboo attraction to children, but this is way more than that. I've found so many other sick and disturbing things that Quora refuses to take down, I've seen people say really nasty things, and then if I were to so much as tell them to be quiet in response to their thousands of cuss words and slurs thrown at me or someone else, I'd get my comment taken down. Quora is a biased, pre-judice website that only adheres to their guidelines when it's convenient to THEM. Whoever is running Quora seems to be a sick minded person themselves, and this website should be rightfully boycotted. My advice? Stay away.