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"Just don't read content you aren't interested in" is paradoxical, because the determination of interest requires reading. The problem is that Quora presents us
by millstone 13y ago
"Just don't read content you aren't interested in" is paradoxical, because the determination of interest requires reading. The problem is that Quora presents users with content they aren't interested in, and don't give users tools to filter that content. If left unchecked, Quora may converge to a monoculture, which would make it much less important than it could be.
But you're absolutely right to point out the racism of the phrase "India problem." The problem is with Quora, not the users or their countries of origin.
> What if most of the content on facebook was suddently in spanish? Would you stop using it or ask for a anti-hispanic filter??
Absolutely, if Facebook insisted on showing me Spanish-languge content no matter what I did. The relevant metric is not "majority of content on the site" but "majority of the content presented to me."
- theorique 13y ago"Just don't read content you aren't interested in" is paradoxical, because the determination of interest requires reading. When I last used Quora, you could follow different topics and people. Presumably, if you aren't interested in Perl coding, you don't follow that topic, and you don't get exposed to Perl content. In what way is India-centric content 'forced' on Quora users in a way that (e.g.) Perl-centric content is not? Is Quora attracting English-speaking Indians as users in disproportionate numbers compared to users not from India?
- rdl 13y agoLike half of the new users are English-speaking Indians, if not more. It got a following in the IITs and exploded there, while stagnating elsewhere.