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Quora has been doing it for a while. But honestly everything about Quora is... ass (from interface to answer quality to moderation). The starting point is so l

Quora has been doing it for a while. But honestly everything about Quora is... ass (from interface to answer quality to moderation). The starting point is so low that I feel AI answer bot is a net positive for them. I won't say the same for SE.

zdc1 2y ago
The Quora AI answers I've seen are often just outright wrong. I almost wish Quora would use Stack Overflows's AI approach, and that Stack Overflow would just stick with human answers only
- vasco 2y ago
  The fact that quora hasn't been marked as spam years ago and downgraded in search results is what tells me google never had impartial ranking. It's got to be the worst website on the internet. Its login walls alone would've downranked any other website. The wrong answers by pretend experts could also have done it. But not even the AI slop. I sometimes wonder if quora's leadership is someone from google's nephew or something.
blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
Note that the founder and CEO of Quora is on the OpenAI board, which may explain why they’ve been doing it for a while. Interestingly, he is the only one of the board members that voted to remove Sam Altman and didn’t resign, and is still there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_D%27Angelo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_D%27Angelo
- renewiltord 2y ago
  He has his own Poe AI or some shit. It’s probably garbage and he tried to whack the competition.
j_bum 2y ago
Quora was the first website I blocked when I started using Kagi. Life is much better now without it dominating my search results.
- Toutouxc 2y ago
  Haha, right, I was like “wow that site still exists?” when I read that and then I remembered I had it blocked on Kagi.
- MarcelOlsz 2y ago
  I've never met anyone who's used Quora, nor have I seen it mentioned or linked to anywhere except inserting itself here and there into search results. Who is using Quora?
  - cookie_monsta 2y ago
    Quora had some really good content when I first started using it (maybe 10 years ago). Some really interesting people at the top of their field would post thoughtful things there. Then after a couple of years I think it changed hands. The dark patterns started (hassling to install the app, hiding content if you weren't logged in, etc) and it all went downhill pretty quickly. I would guess that a lot of those posters migrated here, or to their respective branch on the SE network, or who knows where else
seanhunter 2y ago
Quora is so bad when someone first pointed me at something in Quora I genuinely thought it was some sort of joke website that I just wasn't understanding properly. Believe it or not, within some parts of the SV VC bubble they take Quora really seriously and everyone acts as though it's actually good.
xnx 2y ago
Quora is worse than Yahoo Answers. Yahoo Answers was at least funny some of the time (e.g. "am I gregnant?")

zdc1 2y ago

The Quora AI answers I've seen are often just outright wrong. I almost wish Quora would use Stack Overflows's AI approach, and that Stack Overflow would just stick with human answers only

vasco 2y ago
The fact that quora hasn't been marked as spam years ago and downgraded in search results is what tells me google never had impartial ranking. It's got to be the worst website on the internet. Its login walls alone would've downranked any other website. The wrong answers by pretend experts could also have done it. But not even the AI slop. I sometimes wonder if quora's leadership is someone from google's nephew or something.

blackeyeblitzar 2y ago

Note that the founder and CEO of Quora is on the OpenAI board, which may explain why they’ve been doing it for a while. Interestingly, he is the only one of the board members that voted to remove Sam Altman and didn’t resign, and is still there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_D%27Angelo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_D%27Angelo

renewiltord 2y ago
He has his own Poe AI or some shit. It’s probably garbage and he tried to whack the competition.

j_bum 2y ago

Quora was the first website I blocked when I started using Kagi. Life is much better now without it dominating my search results.

Toutouxc 2y ago
Haha, right, I was like “wow that site still exists?” when I read that and then I remembered I had it blocked on Kagi.
MarcelOlsz 2y ago
I've never met anyone who's used Quora, nor have I seen it mentioned or linked to anywhere except inserting itself here and there into search results. Who is using Quora?
- cookie_monsta 2y ago
  Quora had some really good content when I first started using it (maybe 10 years ago). Some really interesting people at the top of their field would post thoughtful things there. Then after a couple of years I think it changed hands. The dark patterns started (hassling to install the app, hiding content if you weren't logged in, etc) and it all went downhill pretty quickly. I would guess that a lot of those posters migrated here, or to their respective branch on the SE network, or who knows where else

seanhunter 2y ago

Quora is so bad when someone first pointed me at something in Quora I genuinely thought it was some sort of joke website that I just wasn't understanding properly. Believe it or not, within some parts of the SV VC bubble they take Quora really seriously and everyone acts as though it's actually good.

xnx 2y ago

Quora is worse than Yahoo Answers. Yahoo Answers was at least funny some of the time (e.g. "am I gregnant?")