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I use Quora a lot, which has some good stuff but at this point I admit the good stuff is far outnumbered by the bad these days. One of the most annoying things
by robbrown451 7y ago
I use Quora a lot, which has some good stuff but at this point I admit the good stuff is far outnumbered by the bad these days.
One of the most annoying things people do is to write posts (technically answers) that attempt to "surprise" people by telling them something they thought was true, but is in fact, not true.
And so many of them are really convoluted and depend on weird non-standard definitions of things. Something like "technically red things are blue" or the like. (because they absorb blue light maybe? So you are defining things by what they absorb rather than what they reflect? Whuuu?) So, so many answers are like that, but maybe not to that extreme.
Yes it is a clickbaity technique. They are always wanting to blow people's minds.