The odd thing about Quora is that there's actually a lot of good content, but it doesn't show up in search results because the questions that trigger it are of

The odd thing about Quora is that there's actually a lot of good content, but it doesn't show up in search results because the questions that trigger it are of the format "Tell me something interesting about history / technology / whatever" The "hard fact" questions have answers that suck. Absolutely. SO is wildly better for that. It's really a place to go to follow certain people you can rely on to post interesting stuff (ex, there's a lot of really good ASOIAF content), follow niche topics and waste time. Like an entirely text-based reddit.