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Sounds like the author got banned for excessive complaining on Quora and is exceptionally butthurt. I'm a hard core Quora addict and have never encountered mos
by wilfra 14y ago
Sounds like the author got banned for excessive complaining on Quora and is exceptionally butthurt.
I'm a hard core Quora addict and have never encountered most of the things in this post. He's way off about the "elite". Yes there are people who get tons of upvotes and have huge followings but in every case I've seen it's because they are well known off of Quora or they give consistently amazing answers, often both.
It's not like Digg was where some random anonymous person has all this power. Quora power users don't even really have any power beyond knowing lots of people will read their answers, even then those answers still must be good to get upvotes.
- tbatterii 14y agoThat is the exact impression i got right down to "butt-hurt". I don't use quora myself, but I do find it annoying when people with blogs project their standards on someone else's creation. It's like a more articulate "GUYZ Y THE DOWN VOTEZ??!!??"
- ericdykstra 14y agoSpot on. Maybe the author got banned, maybe the author just wanted to write an inciteful piece that would get a lot of pageviews. Either way, what's described in the article is nothing like my experience with Quora over the past year+
- Evbn 14y agoNice head fake into correct use of "inciteful".
- Noldorin 14y agoAnd clearly you are sufficiently biased, likewise, that your opinion must be irrational. Oh no, wait, we've just fallen into several logical fallacies. Next time, please switch on your brain before posting.
- pbreit 14y agoThe article was clearly well-researched so doesn't seem like a simple reaction to a bad experience. And I can attest to some of the experiences expressed in the article. There's a pretty bizarre ritual going on over at Quora that it's hard to pin down but I think the author did a reasonably good job. That said, Quora has obviously cracked a nut whereby it is getting very high quality/value content from well-placed individuals.
- jlgreco 14y ago"Sounds like the author got banned for excessive complaining on Quora and is exceptionally butthurt. I'm a hard core Quora addict and have never encountered most of the things in this post." "He's way off about the "elite"." You know, I think I can see where she may be coming from with some of these complaints.
- HistoryInAction 14y agoShe, actually.