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One observation: No quality threshold. The stupid question is one you already know the answer to. Fits a lot of their questions…
by dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
One observation: No quality threshold.
The stupid question is one you already know the answer to. Fits a lot of their questions…
- jfengel 3y agoThe site worked for some time with no sort of quality threshold. Some sites manage to do ok based largely on the goodwill of its user base, including HN here, as well as Wikipedia. In both cases it had someone with a banhammer who stomps on the worst offenders fast. And Quora is definitely lacking that right now. A smallish number of trolls create accounts in bulk and seem to spend considerable free time thinking up new variations of the same obscenities. Quora doesn't even pretend to be proactive about stopping that. At best the automated moderation will take action eventually, but often not. That's not even taking into account that Quora has welcomed white supremacists. As long as they keep to their own sub groups Quora doesn't care how violent the racist rhetoric is. But of course such things leak out.