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Not only that, but the answers on Quora seem to be 80% garbage.
by user_50123890 7y ago
Not only that, but the answers on Quora seem to be 80% garbage.
- DaiPlusPlus 7y agoAdd on top of that the websites that just repost StackOverflow content.
- notadoc 7y agoI think you have it backwards. Tons of "content" on StackOverflow is copy/pasted from another source, often some experts personal blog or a niche site, without sourcing to the original.
- lucb1e 7y agoI've rarely noticed that. Are you saying someone will copy both the question and the answer from a place like experts exchange or a blog? Do they post them under different accounts to make it seem less obvious? Or do you mean the semi-rare occasion where someone cites a blog post? I think I've seen an unsourced copy only once, I think it was a new answer where nobody else had seen it yet and I edited in a link to the source. But this is many years ago, I don't remember the situation exactly (and I visit stackexchange sites a lot, more than most people I think, since it's the only social site where I permit myself to go to during work hours).
- freehunter 7y agoThe only value I get from Quora is in the questions, never the answers. The answers are always advertisements and usually advertisements from third-rate companies who wouldn't be anyone's first or second choice for answering the question. But plenty of times I see a question on Quora and it sparks an idea or leads to questions of my own that I then seek answers for independently. It's kind of like browsing Pinboard's "recent" section. Lots of noise but once in a while it gives me the spark I need to find, learn, or create something new.
- qwerty456127 7y agoEverything is 80% garbage. That's a law of nature.
- mattkevan 7y agoAt Internet scale, Sturgeon’s law is six-sigma.
- Andrew_nenakhov 7y agoI've found a lot of amazing stuff related to some subjects: history, physics, etc. Anything that does not have commercial interest is spam free and really engaging.
- artemonster 7y agoq: What is 3+2? a: hello, I am 30 year old guy from india. <insert a story about forced marriage> <some ramblings about caste system> 1500 words later: "and this, in short, how I got my prostate cancer"
- dustincoates 7y agoIt depends what you're looking for. For things that are fact-based or in areas where someone could conceivably sell you something, it's not great. However, I seek out Quora answers often for questions about people's experiences. I have a long dropdown in my history of searches that start "What is it like..." What is it like to become a parent? What is it like growing up in New York City? Things like I don't know of any better place to find those answers.