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Quora was great years ago, but now it’s just a glorified Yahoo Answers full of Indians giving non-answers and fake stories in broken English.

StavrosK 8y ago
What's wrong with Indians?
- system2 8y ago
  Well, in the tech world (especially online), they tend to provide low-quality service and bad codes. Quora is an free Indian-web-service-provider advertising platform. Nothing else. It is frustrating to see all off-shore "developers" coming up with a solution to your problems.
  - ryanmccullagh 8y ago
    It's pretty ironic, that 2 of the top tech companies have Indian CEOs.
    - system2 8y ago
      Statistically, it is very insignificant.
      - Apocryphon 8y ago
        Market cap-wise, not quite so insignificant.
        system2 8y ago
        Accomplishments of few people are not enough to fix the epidemic.
- TheArcane 8y ago
  reddit.com/r/IndianPeopleQuora is pretty active
cdogl 8y ago
This bizarre racism seems quite off-topic.
- corporateguy6 8y ago
  Have you used the website? It’s not racism if it’s reality
  - travisporter 8y ago
    Quora was great years ago, but now it’s just a glorified Yahoo Answers full of ... non-answers and fake stories in broken English.
    - deleted 8y ago
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- system2 8y ago
  He absolutely 10000% correct, it is not racism. Quora is 98% Indian (or similar region country people) asking fake questions to "market" their crappy service. It is incredibly obvious if you ever visit once. (Probably will be your first visit because you didn't notice it.)
  - wyclif 8y ago
    It is indeed not racism. I was an editor at Quora in its early days as a way to make some easy side money. I'd say something on the order of 90% of the unedited content in the queue originates in India, and it's terrible. Loads and loads of repetitive, already-answered questions (a seemingly never-ending flood) about IIT or body shops and worried queries about which engineering school is the best or the most competitive, all badly written and horribly spelled. And that's before you even get to the scammy stuff!
  - break_the_bank 8y ago
    Not just people marketing their services but people marketing themselves. People post questions about themselves and then proceed to answer those questions to build an online presence.
techsin101 8y ago
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.
- chillee 8y ago
  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-as-a-beginner/answer/Saif-Quraishi 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.
  - fipple 8y ago
    This answer looks to be written by an AI.
    - sreeramvenkat 8y ago
      Yes. Apparently from an 'Idea machine'
ebcode 8y ago
Yet you have the Indians to thank for your username: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru
- 200px 8y ago
  How is the etymology of "Guru" relevant to this discussion?
  - ebcode 8y ago
    It is relevant because the parent made a disparaging remark about Indians on Quora, while having a username with a borrowed word from India. I dislike the antipathy shown towards Indians online (and off), and I try to combat it where I can. There are more civil and polite methods of expressing dissatisfaction than the kind of blanket statement that gurumeditations has resorted to above.
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sanketskasar 8y ago
Tell me about it. I was probably among the few thousands of Indians using the website during 2012-2013. It helped me so much with learning programming, asking experts, reading about their experiences about working on large scale projects. I thought Quora was the go-to place for useful advices. A year or so and a Quora popularity boom later, I had hundreds of followers, feeds with all kinds of life stories and experiences, and all stuff I deemed useless. I decided to delete my account. The shitloads of crap that Indians have spewed on Quora is most probably the only thing I feel shameful about as an Indian.
- starpilot 8y ago
  There's a weird/fascinating subculture of "Indian Quora," a bit like the ruNet. Check out /r/indianpeoplequora, or just this question: https://www.quora.com/What-is-Indian-thug-life-like https://www.quora.com/What-is-Indian-thug-life-like. It's a deep Indian circlejerk that's invisible to most of Quora.
- kown223 8y ago
  you're OK with all the rape going on in india?
  - deleted 8y ago
    [deleted]
puranjay 8y ago
As an Indian, I have to agree. My feed is filled with questions about salaries and IT jobs, even though I've never held an IT job or want one. The answers are insipid, the burden of proof is entirely anecdotal, and brevity is apparently not a thing. Plus, the platform is now filled with spammers just promoting their own companies. Ask a question about how to manage a project better and you'll only get some spammer promoting his software instead of actually sharing tactics.
tminima 8y ago
Reminds me about the Quora's "India Problem" in 2013. I am an Indian and I stopped going on Quora within a month of joining the service. Now, from the looks of it, it has actually worsened.

StavrosK 8y ago

What's wrong with Indians?

system2 8y ago
Well, in the tech world (especially online), they tend to provide low-quality service and bad codes. Quora is an free Indian-web-service-provider advertising platform. Nothing else. It is frustrating to see all off-shore "developers" coming up with a solution to your problems.
- ryanmccullagh 8y ago
  It's pretty ironic, that 2 of the top tech companies have Indian CEOs.
  - system2 8y ago
    Statistically, it is very insignificant.
    - Apocryphon 8y ago
      Market cap-wise, not quite so insignificant.
      - system2 8y ago
        Accomplishments of few people are not enough to fix the epidemic.
TheArcane 8y ago
reddit.com/r/IndianPeopleQuora is pretty active

cdogl 8y ago

This bizarre racism seems quite off-topic.

corporateguy6 8y ago
Have you used the website? It’s not racism if it’s reality
- travisporter 8y ago
  Quora was great years ago, but now it’s just a glorified Yahoo Answers full of ... non-answers and fake stories in broken English.
  - deleted 8y ago
    [deleted]
system2 8y ago
He absolutely 10000% correct, it is not racism. Quora is 98% Indian (or similar region country people) asking fake questions to "market" their crappy service. It is incredibly obvious if you ever visit once. (Probably will be your first visit because you didn't notice it.)
- wyclif 8y ago
  It is indeed not racism. I was an editor at Quora in its early days as a way to make some easy side money. I'd say something on the order of 90% of the unedited content in the queue originates in India, and it's terrible. Loads and loads of repetitive, already-answered questions (a seemingly never-ending flood) about IIT or body shops and worried queries about which engineering school is the best or the most competitive, all badly written and horribly spelled. And that's before you even get to the scammy stuff!
- break_the_bank 8y ago
  Not just people marketing their services but people marketing themselves. People post questions about themselves and then proceed to answer those questions to build an online presence.

techsin101 8y ago

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.

chillee 8y ago
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-as-a-beginner/answer/Saif-Quraishi 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.
- fipple 8y ago
  This answer looks to be written by an AI.
  - sreeramvenkat 8y ago
    Yes. Apparently from an 'Idea machine'

ebcode 8y ago

Yet you have the Indians to thank for your username: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru

200px 8y ago
How is the etymology of "Guru" relevant to this discussion?
- ebcode 8y ago
  It is relevant because the parent made a disparaging remark about Indians on Quora, while having a username with a borrowed word from India. I dislike the antipathy shown towards Indians online (and off), and I try to combat it where I can. There are more civil and polite methods of expressing dissatisfaction than the kind of blanket statement that gurumeditations has resorted to above.

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sanketskasar 8y ago

Tell me about it. I was probably among the few thousands of Indians using the website during 2012-2013. It helped me so much with learning programming, asking experts, reading about their experiences about working on large scale projects. I thought Quora was the go-to place for useful advices. A year or so and a Quora popularity boom later, I had hundreds of followers, feeds with all kinds of life stories and experiences, and all stuff I deemed useless. I decided to delete my account. The shitloads of crap that Indians have spewed on Quora is most probably the only thing I feel shameful about as an Indian.

starpilot 8y ago
There's a weird/fascinating subculture of "Indian Quora," a bit like the ruNet. Check out /r/indianpeoplequora, or just this question: https://www.quora.com/What-is-Indian-thug-life-like https://www.quora.com/What-is-Indian-thug-life-like. It's a deep Indian circlejerk that's invisible to most of Quora.
kown223 8y ago
you're OK with all the rape going on in india?
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]

puranjay 8y ago

As an Indian, I have to agree. My feed is filled with questions about salaries and IT jobs, even though I've never held an IT job or want one. The answers are insipid, the burden of proof is entirely anecdotal, and brevity is apparently not a thing. Plus, the platform is now filled with spammers just promoting their own companies. Ask a question about how to manage a project better and you'll only get some spammer promoting his software instead of actually sharing tactics.

tminima 8y ago

Reminds me about the Quora's "India Problem" in 2013. I am an Indian and I stopped going on Quora within a month of joining the service. Now, from the looks of it, it has actually worsened.