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What kind of useful answers can be found on Quora these days?
by EEBio 5y ago
What kind of useful answers can be found on Quora these days?
- lordnacho 5y agoMainly articulate opinions on various questions that are open ended. "What regrets do you have?", that kind of thing.
- doggerel403 5y agoIt's actually more useful than that. Even for queries with objective, straightforward answers, if I get a search result with a Wikipedia article and a quora answer I almost always go with quora. The Wikipedia result is an article written by a faceless group of people and there's no way for me to gauge the quality other than included references (which are very hit and miss on a good number of articles). The quora result is a variety of answers from a bunch of people with real names attached (in most cases). I can pick which answer I think feels more authoritative or detailed, or mix and match answers. I think having a real name behind the answer and each answer not just being a mishmash of contributions from anonymous sources results in higher quality answers I can trust (or at least make a decision about what level of trust I want to have in the answer which is very helpful when you're getting answers from the internet). Also having a bunch of answers to compare and contrast instead of just one definitive answer actually helps
- ilrwbwrkhv 5y agoMost of the names though are unknown. Unless it is a really famous person, so it is virtually the same thing as wikipedia which actually has proper information compared to Quora.
- hobs 5y agoYou are the only person I know about who would choose quora over anything but yahoo answers.
- doggerel404 5y agoI use it for just about everything. In fact if I could limit my google search answers to just quora, stackoverflow and reddit I would be satisfied.
- tptacek 5y agoQuora has much more staying power than Clubhouse, which was a novelty even in its honeymoon period.
- renewiltord 5y agoInteresting. site:quora.com OR site:stackoverflow.com search query results in mostly one or the other winning on Google. However, they are the only ones who show up in the results.
- pollomonteros 5y agoWhen you are doing an assignment for school that could be answered in 10 words but the teacher has placed a 500 words lower limit for it
- cellis 5y agoLuckily we have GPT-3 now...
- jazzyjackson 5y agoI would love to use GPT-3 in reverse, to convert search results into the 30 words that actually answer my query.
- andrei_says_ 5y agoThis describes so much of the content on the web nowadays and it’s just exhausting. I thought I was the weird one with my ultra-succinct communication but I now know the endless walls of text reflect the corrupting effect of needing to please search engines.
- lIIIllllIIII 5y agoThat explains a lot of the crap I see. Google something very specific like how to setup a testing library? You'll get an article from dev.to with a 3000 word wall of text containing not only a verbose description of what is unit testing and why you should unit test, but also the author's life story and maybe a recipe for mojitos The actual content was a couple of shell commands and like 3 lines of JSON
- Apocryphon 5y agoWorse still are those auto generated spam sites that have an FAQ index on the top of the page looking like a Wiki but are actually just empty content pulled in from multiple sources.
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- geoduck14 5y agoJust an hour ago, I was looking for beaches in Florida - Quora provided some great answers for me