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It is shell shocking and I don't want anything to do with it. Yet the site keeps suggesting these articles. The content is like high quality curated rotten.com,

• jfengel 5y ago
  Quora's algorithm definitely gets into "moods". Once it gets it into its head that you like something, it'll feed you a lot of that. Some days that mood is completely off base. It provides tools to nudge the algorithm in a different direction, but it can take a while. And many of them are somewhat hidden, like topic muting. I'm not sure it would be worth your time to learn it. The site still has valuable content, but it's harder and harder to find. The tools for helping are primitive, and not improving. For what it's worth I can say that not everyone sees what you see. I have no idea why it thinks you like that. It's a machine learning thing, so they don't know either.
  • unixhero 5y ago
    Great answer. I still don't understand why they chose to keep all of that snuff on the site. It is harrowing.
    • jfengel 5y ago
      They are a content farm, so they will keep practically anything that isn't illegal. And even stuff that is illegal, unless someone reports it -- and then only if some unknown moderator happens to agree.