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“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora.
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Anyone else getting a massive wave of spam from quora lately? They have completey gone to shiite
Either they’ve forgot about me or I blocked them and forgot about it
Quota was just Ask Jeeves 2.0… Both relied on human “experts” and neither could figure out a long term monetization plan.
A horrible user experience with an insufferable userbase. I can’t believe it even lasted this long.
Who thought it would be great if similar questions overpowered the one you searched for?
The Quora experience:
“Hey Quorans, how many carrots go in a carrot stew?”
Answer to a similar question: “Why does Bugs Bunny eat carrots?”
unfunny joke “I have an IQ of 128” sarcasm Anyways to answer the question, it’s because he needs good eyesight.
Stack Exchange
Yeah nah. I didn’t need to know how babby was formed
The internet sucks ass
Never used it, noticed it was infected with Chinese and Russian propaganda.
Quora still has answers to some old math problems so it’s not all that useless.
I worry that it will abruptly die one day and we’ll lose that. Perhaps someone should be archiving good quora information lol.
If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora.
I disagree, the best place for such answers used to be Reddit, and Stack Exchange for the techy stuff. Quora always felt like cancer for some reason and I never really used it.
I think that’s because Quora paywalls responses from volunteers, preventing others from seeing them unless they pay a subscription. Pretty scummy.
I wouldn’t call it scummy, just bad business, give people one premium answer per week, so they know the quallity and at incentivised to pay.
It is though, because they gamed search engines well enough to frequently be in the top results yet never had an answer you could see. Annoying as fuck
Do they pay the people who answer the questions? I genuinely don’t know. But if they don’t then, yes, it is scummy to just profit off of someone else’s work and not pay them.
I’ve contributed to sites like Wikipedia.
Not everything needs to be measured in money though. There’s inherent satisfaction in the work with things like this. And at the end of the day, we all benefit from having platforms with accurate, well thought out answers. Today you’re answering, tomorrow you’re the one with the question.
Wikipedia is run by a nonprofit. They don’t monetise volunteer contributions and they don’t paywall the knowledge on their site, they run on donations. It’s not really a comparable situation.
But Wikipedia aren’t charging people to see the work you contributed for free. That’s a significant difference.
Here’s hoping at some point search engines will return Lemmy links when people look for answers, but we’re not there yet
Kagi now has a lens for focusing results from the Fediverse, I’ve seen it pull Lemmy links before!
Have we said anything useful yet? Just kidding, but I just look for casual commentary on here, all surface level and meme stuff when tired at the end of the day.
search engines are thoroughly crap right now. Abandon all hope that they will become better.
You say that like it’s true for all search engines. Which isn’t the case and is incredibly dumb to think.
Lemme guess, you’re a kagi cultist.
The problem with Lemmy is the federated content gets duplicated on multiple sites, word for word, which isn’t good for SEO
That is a search engine problem, not a lemmy problem.
I think Something will have to change quite significantly.
Search engines give heavy weighting to uniqueness of content. And with Lemmy content being replicated across the fediverse that doesn’t exactly happen.
And I’m not sure you can set a canonical URL that’s off site. And then, if it does and that site goes down, you “lose” the content.
It’s not just that it’s not unique, but any single instance is less heavily viewed, even if the overall response is
I’d say there was a period before reddit hit its pinnacle where Quora was significantly better. Probably more than 10 years ago, though, and only for a few years. I remember when I started spending more time on Reddit than Quora.
For me I hated Quora because of how locked down it is. Want to view another question on the site? Must register an account first! No fucking thanks. It was always nagging about creating an account.
Because of this I actively ignored Quora results anytime I googled something.
Yep, I can’t speak on the decline of quality because it was a site that was early to dark pattern bullshit. It would show up prominently in Google search and then tease “you have to sign up to read the answers”. Uh, no. Reminds me of expert sexchange or whatever that site was that got smashed by stackoverflow for similar reasons.
Umm… expert sexchange?
Experts Exchange, basically if stackoverflow was quora. Can only see questions even when logged in and you’d have to pay a pretty penny to get access to any answer. Or you could collect enough points to access the answer you need by writing answers yourself (ridiculously many points, think weeks of answering).
Oh damn, experts exchange. Takes me back!
I found a work around for this even though i don’t use quora anymore here it goes :
- click the question you want to see from the web page . then when the question thread link you want to see appears on your search bar click your search bar and load it manually . Also you have to be in incognito mode for this to work .
I finally cracked and made an account
It’s not worth it, you basically get alerts on the account for everything to the point of uselessness
That’s what I have been told and that’s why I have been avoiding creating an account
But even then, there were issues plaguing Quora that would continue to fester. First, an anonymous former Quoran told me, the site started “shortening the length of questions.” The professed reason was to increase Quora’s visibility on Google, but that brevity came with a cost: It also made it difficult for users to ask the types of complex questions that could be addressed by specialists
Ah, I see they started the enshittification very early. It might’ve been a good LLM database, but the good quality content would be outdated by now and the more recent is infested with troll and bot garbage and AI writing. Sad.
This is the classic mission mismatch. The people are there for a community. The company is there for a profit.
The wikimedia foundation is a foundation whose mission is in line with the people who add to Wikipedia. So there isn’t a conflict
I’ve been pouring my life into the Internet since before Quora existed.
There was never a time I recall Quora not being shit. All it ever did was dilute search results.
Any time Quora results come up my search gets an instant -Quora. That site is a wet fart… terrible
I only pull up Quora when I want to know the most common wrong answers to questions.
New theory: Quora is an elaborate attempt to poison LLMs
I would pull it up if it seemed directly related, but just the UX was so awful that even if it answered my question, it felt bad the whole while. Though most of the time it was the most awful LinkedIn-esque winemaking m wind bagging by people desperate to be considered professionals in their field
It’s like the text version of Pinterest.
Except Pinterest is good if you know what you’re looking for. Quora has always been bad no matter what you do.
Perfect description.
I was thinking it’s like the LinkedIn version of yahoo answers
This article links to a Tweet of a screen recording of a TikTok of a screenshot of a Reddit post as proof that Quora is “hateful”. Yeesh.
Have you been there? It doesnt take long to come across the exact same thing they are highlighting.
Yahoo answers used to be great
Only for being laughably awful. Quora was in this place where the answers were just good enough that you probably wouldn’t be able to dispute any obvious flaws without being a subject matter expert already. Yahoo Answers was only a meme factory.
how is babby formed
gerganant?
I think the greatest thing that Quora provided was the “Pregananant???” video. Or was that Yahoo?
Yahoo answers
Edit: pregánte
What is a Luigi board?
