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This bizarre racism seems quite off-topic.
by cdogl 8y ago
This bizarre racism seems quite off-topic.
- corporateguy6 8y agoHave you used the website? It’s not racism if it’s reality
- travisporter 8y agoQuora was great years ago, but now it’s just a glorified Yahoo Answers full of ... non-answers and fake stories in broken English.
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- system2 8y agoHe 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 agoIt 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 agoNot 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.
- shard972 8y ago> He absolutely 10000% correct, it is not racism. Quora is 98% Indian I think you missed the memo, racism is now just the act of identifying race as existing.
- stickfigure 8y agoOn one hand I feel the same reaction you have to the parent, phrased this way it sounds like he/she is denigrating a whole nation. On the other hand, there was something that happened here that we should probably talk about. A few years ago some of the topics (especially human-relationship subjects) experienced a sudden surge of content from people from India. I know many smart and erudite Indians, and these new users... weren't. I don't know what happened. Maybe Quora suddenly became a fad with the pre-teens in India? Kids online are generally insufferable from all cultures. The platform didn't digest this well. Quite a few topics that used to be interesting suddenly became filled with garbage. I stopped watching many. Now I seem to just get bombarded with WW2 trivia, which is ok I guess, but I kinda miss "the old Quora". It's an awkward subject but the parent's comment can't just be discounted as racism.
- vtesucks 8y agoIf you're okay with pointing out that statistically Indians are much more likely to make stupid answers, what's wrong with saying statistically blacks are much more likely to commit crimes. Choose both or none.
- pfd1986 8y agoCrimes are/ might be more likely to be committed by blacks, in some countries. Being black doesn't make you more likely to commit a crime.
- vtesucks 8y agoDo you even bayesian?
- throwawaythekey 8y agoI think he's talking about the difference between correlation and causation. You're right though in that from a law enforcement POV the two look roughly the same.
- busterarm 8y agoThis bizarre racism where nobody states what's blatantly apparent because it can be misinterpreted as racist and people claim racism so as to seem not-racist seems quite off-logic.