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Ask HN: Why does there seem to be a widespread disdain for Quora on Hacker News?
- cjbprime 8y agohttps://waxy.org/2018/12/why-you-should-never-ever-use-quora/ https://waxy.org/2018/12/why-you-should-never-ever-use-quora... https://konklone.com/post/quora-keeps-the-worlds-knowledge-for-itself https://konklone.com/post/quora-keeps-the-worlds-knowledge-f...
- PaulHoule 8y agoIt's like Tedium. A site full of spammy articles and clickbait headlines that claims to be a little better than the rest of the Google Platform but is actually just a little worse. And yeah, they make you register to read it.
- gus_massa 8y agoI agree. From a recent Quora article: https://quorapartners.quora.com/The-Quora-Partner-Program-in-2018 https://quorapartners.quora.com/The-Quora-Partner-Program-in... > The top earning partner has earned $26,897 and asked over 8,000 questions, averaging about 45 questions per day With and average of 45 questions per day, how good can be the questions?
- Rjevski 8y agoSimilar to Pinterest, they pollute search results with pages that ask you to login or signup before you can view the content, despite offering the content to search engines without the login requirement. I wish search engines would crack down on this and completely delist the entire domain if such behaviour is detected. About the content itself, it’s often spam. There seems to be no moderation against people posting “answers” that promote their own solutions/companies which means a lot of answers about tech are simply “use <this> service which allows you to do <copy/paste of what you asked for>“.
- infinii 8y agoI see there are browser plugins, enabling you to read Quora articles without logging in. But are there any plugins that remove/filter all google search results from Quora?