It is amazing that Quora raised millions of dollars for a crummy question and answer website. It probably was able to raise the funds for several reasons, none of which were because it deserved to raise even a penny. These reasons probably included: the owner had connections, they did a good job at raising capital, the owners had a good credit rating, and the people doing the pitch to the investors were good salesmen.
But the truth is that Quora sucks. Why does it suck so badly? Here are the top 10 reasons that Quora sucks.
10 You have to have an account to even read the results on Quora
However, that still doesn't change that fact that it is a huge annoyance that they literally force all visitors to register for an account in order to use the site, thus revealing their email and home IP address, unless you use a VPN and a throwaway email. But even if you do use a VPN and throwaway email, your account will quickly be deleted if you don't violate your privacy, as explained in the rest of this top 10 list of why Quora sucks.
9 You have to download the Quora app in order to even use the full site
8 They force you to use the site their way and not the way you want to
7 You have to use your REAL name in real life to even use the site
The stupid and really horrible reason they do this is because they don't want people creating multiple accounts and they think it will tone down people's passion. However, more importantly, it gives the moderators an unreasonable amount of control over the content. By being able to ban a user forever from ever using the website, moderators are able to inhibit freedom of speech by banning any users who do not agree with their personal values, even if they did not break any "rules".
This is a 1) violation of privacy, 2) violation of freedom of speech, and 3) results in political bias, which is a huge no-no for a question and answer site. Worse, it alienates a large number of valuable contributors, because only people who are stupid or naive enough to give a liberal question and answer website access to their personal identity and personally identifying documents, will ever be the ones who remain on the website.
Additionally, it means that people will not be fully honest and will not give the correct and unbiased answers, because of the constant fear of being banned from the website.
As a result, the site is now filled with hacks and liberals instead of valuable contributors. The moderators are able to push their liberal bias and ban conservative views. They are able to delete any honest comments about how terrible Quora is so they can safely ignore the valuable advice telling them why they sick so bad, because they have no reason to change it.
Moreover, now they can sell all these people's personal information to the highest bidder as part of their monetization strategy.
Sure, you can post answers as "Anonymous". However, anonymous answers are penalized, and have a high risk of being deleted by a moderator who disagrees with you. Additionally, just because you are posting as "anonymous" doesn't mean anything because Quora unpaid and paid moderators and staff still know everything you posted is directly connected to you, and this information is collected and forever stored, and one day most certainly will come back to haunt you. Once you post on Quora, that is connected to you, personally, forever.
Also, if you accidentally post something personal as not anonymous, you are SOL.
6 You have to use a real photograph of yourself on the Quora post
So you keep quiet or tone down your posts, and as a result the quality of the entire site is degraded and unfairly biased. If they don't believe your headshot is you or is not good enough, they will suspend your account asking for more privacy invasion personal identification, and possibly delete your account and all your hard work.
Please note that they say you don't have to use your real photo. But if you don't soon your account will become suspended and they will demand even more privacy violating identity verifications. One of these verifications can and does include a picture of yourself. They want to make sure they know exactly who you are in real life. Which is completely none of their business, because you don't know anything about the "moderator" who you are sending all your personal information to.
5 Quora creates, wants, and panders to tyrannical moderators
They might let you waste a bunch of time first before deleting all your content you worked hard for and banning you forever just because they don't agree with your political perspective, or because they want you to give them a copy of your ID and other violations of personal privacy.
4 Quora is extremely unpopular
Why is Quora ranked in search engines? It has nothing to do with popularity. It has to do with the fact that they keep posting so much new stupid questions and stupid answers from their teams of writers who are the main ones using the website (not actual visitors), and large amounts of content and being regularly updated is favored by the search engines, despite the fact that it is an extremely unpopular website that most of the internet wants to die and stop showing up in their web searches.
3 What you write is not yours, and probably will be changed against your will
Not only is this an ethical violation because your content is essentially your only payment for the time you spent writing on the site, but also it is potentially damaging to you and is a personal violation against contributors, because they can change your question to mean something you never intended to ask, or they can change your answers to portray views that do not line up with your personal views.
Then for example your employer one day is browsing the internet and reads a Quora answer you wrote - because after all it has your real name and a picture of you next to it - and hates what you wrote. But he doesn't know that that isn't what you wrote at all, that is what some moderator completely twisted out of context when they rewrote your question against your will.
2 Quora reveals everything you have read on the website to the public
Since it is a question and answer website, and because it comes up in your web browsing searches, if you accidentally clicked a web result for Quora when you were searching for "how to cure athlete's foot", now this embarrassing fact is permanently connected to your real name for the entire world to see. This is a massive violation of privacy that goes even further than many other privacy violating sites.
1 Quora pollutes internet searches on mobile devices
This is even more problematic when it comes to mobile devices, because on a mobile device you can't manually remove the overlays like you can on a desktop if you are computer savvy. Instead, you have to just push the back button on your mobile browser and you can't even read the content on a mobile device.
So in essence, it is clear that on multiple levels, Quora is basically a site which wants tons of people to work for them without pay, and without even the sole benefit to be able to express their own personal views and ask the questions they want to.
After all, who wants to ask embarrassing questions that might help other people but will be forever connected to you personally, both your real name and real picture of you? Do you really want the world to know that you don’t know how to cook a chicken, or that your wife cheated on you and you don’t know what to do about it? Of course not.
And what if you got divorced? Well you can’t use this site to ask people how to recover from it unless you also want the world knowing you are getting divorced. What if you are a recovering alcoholic? Internet forums are a great way to anonymously get other recovering addicts to help you recover without revealing to your employer and the world that you are struggling with alcoholism. These and many other scenarios are excellent ways to utilize an anonymous question and answer forum, but Quora has designed a system that prevents anyone from getting real help. Quora is not a safe haven! It is a very dangerous haven for anyone who is seeking help for anything, big or small.
So you can’t use the site to ask the most important questions, express opinions, find out real and unbiased information that is useful to your life, add your valuable contributions, or build your online reputation, all the things that you are supposed to be able to do on a question and answer site and which is the entire reason for its existence, because the entire website is designed to hurt its contributors and portray a biased viewpoint on every topic.
So it is clear that Quora sucks very badly. I really hope that the site dies a quick death, sooner rather than later. I also really hope that whoever is funding the site wakes up and realizes the truth behind this horrible website and pulls their funding, so that the owners of Quora can stop profiting off ruining the internet and harming people’s lives by violating their privacy.
Undercover Investigation
Update: I created an account on Quora and over the past couple weeks I made a couple hundred posts. Most of them valuable replies and comments, a few not so much. I wanted to check to see if anything as changed, so I went undercover.
As expected, they have now blocked my profile saying it violates the “real name” policy. However, the name I used isn’t a particularly odd-sounding name.
I wanted to further the undercover operation by seeing what kind of sensitive documents they demand in order to post on their free website, but the link goes to a contact form which is broken. It is just a white page. This shows very poor programming. You can see for yourself at https://www.quora.com/contact.
I tested in the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Explorer. I even tried accessing the contact form using a different IP address from a different geographic location, but no luck. Currently, the website is broken. It also has some major bugs such as deleting comments is not possible since it gives a white transparent overlay but the delete comment is missing.
If they do fix this major website bug, I will continue by updating this post with screenshots of the full sensitive personal information they demand from me in order to participate on their free website. It’s free because they profit from selling your personal information.
And they delay blocking you until you contributed quite a bit to the website so that you are emotionally invested in the website and more likely to concede to their demands for your personal information that they are not entitled to. Moreover, depending on what they demand, it may be illegal.
Pretty good summary of their site.
I’m unsubscribing from Quora because of their insistence that you download their app on my dated tablet but Chrome has become so bloated, it occupies too much of my memory and I refuse to add more clutter and sacrifice memory just to use their app or download anyone else’s.
Eff’em all-
Thanks for your write-up.
You get 10 points from me ! I left Quora or curos 11/2 years ago, too many tight assed professionals,know it alls , and yes everytime I search something Quora comes up , I can count on it .
ALSO we have had monopolies since WW2 controlling things. The purpose was to kick things up because in 1940 we had a crap army no better then 1912 with crappy or broken equipment. FDR’s answer was to prop it all up by making all the private companies work with the government to speed production.
When WW2 ended he didn’t loosen anything.
We are in a hidden war (well not so hidden once you go to talk shows and outside MSM) between globalists and socialists who want full thought control. Most of these censoring tactics took off in the middle of the Obama era but very few complaints because the left thought they had it in the bag. VERY scary stuff was in the Stimulus bill more then half not set till this and next year.
We had a decent set of people take over the house in 2013 since then and blocked a lot of the scary stuff from happening but it’s still pending. Trump went further to block it but a lot of the globalists make money off of it so they circumstanced him.
Obama did some key things to the internet at his last year to hand things to the United Nations and things really got weird. A lot of sites don’t update or have broken navigation now unless your on phone only.
Google only gives outdated search results where as on DDG you get 2018 results on whatever you type if people mentioned it Google blocks it. Google said in a secret interview that they believe they have the right to control political content to stop ‘harmful’ stuff and will step it up to prevent 2016 again.
Sorry but NO THEY DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT. They are NOT a private company they have ties to the NSA/CIA and work with them. That makes them lost their private status with all due respect.
Quora is absolutely going the way of extreme dictatorship.
Moderators use its rights to crack down anything that they dislike. It seems for me that it is their personal motives and matters. They’re highly corrupt. They don’t crack down who is writing the inaccurate answers. On the other side, they used to target who is writing moderate or accurate stuffs which moderators personally dislike. They don’t care about defamations against Catholic & Protestants while they attempt to stop anything negative orthodox church. It is obviously unnatural.
I think Quora is political agenda of China to manipulate in the name of liberalism.
I agree, Quora sucks a lot!
Quora is a totalitarian social media platform. They are restricting users of freedom of speech. They use same tactics as Nazis were using - spreading their propaganda to keep their narrative & anyone who doesn’t agree with them are silenced and trumped. They use their “be nice and be respectful” policy to censor any information these dictators (sorry moderators) don’t agree with. Their mission is not to spread knowledge and information (as they claim), but to keep their side of the narrative on the front page. They DO censor certain opinions! For example: Question was asked: If you think Jehovah’s Witnesses are a cult?”. I sincerely answered yes and provided information with link of cult experts to why they qualify as a mind controlling cult. I didn’t insult any users or anyone, just provided my answer with facts. Yet Quora collapsed my answer & sent me an email that my answer violates Quora’s “Be Nice, Be Respectful” policy. So, I didn’t even have an option to choose yes? Then what was the point of question if I couldn’t choose between yes or no?
They also removed my comment when after reading someone’s answer about animal slaughtering festivals of Faroe Islands and China (with pictures) I said: “Shame on you Faroe Islands and China for your bloody barbarian traditions!”, which was very adequate answer after looking at those horrible photos. Quora once again removed my comment and sent me their notification about “violating” their favorite “be nice be respectful” policy.
My last straw was when, I saw really hateful comment from one guy, who literally was sending whole country to hell, asking Russia to nuke it, calling it evil, unchristian and other nasty names, freely expressing his hatred of that country and it’s people, calling them r*tards. His comment was clearly violating their “be nice and be respectful” policy. I reported it and guess what? They didn’t remove it. It’s still there, however they were pretty quick to remove my comment when I criticized those slaughtering festivals… What a hypocrisy!
It’s a very hypocrite & dishonest website! Moderators are obviously deciding what is or isn’t allowed based on their own personal bias. You can’t even provide your opinion honestly, because they will delete it, sending you their “be nice and respectful” violation notice emails.
Quora is also a nest of aggressive extremist pro liberal leftists.
I deleted my account and I suggest you to do the same, folks. Don’t be part of their system. Protest injustice and leave their dirty authoritarian platform. I hope one day it shuts down.
P.S. Try to silence my criticism here, Quora.
Time to hack and destroy Quora.
To be honest yes it is a bad site but so are legitimate sites like the newspaper sites but they do the same thing. They ban you, they prevent you from adding your comments if they don’t agree with you, they only publish reviews and blogs from their suck subscribers so to me its just the internet and why I would never subscribe and pay money to any of these.
There is a network of thugs… they are the secret societies or tentacles of the Mystery School Cult.
To understand the “Mystery School” better William Cooper created the “Mystery Babylon” radio series.
Winston Churchill was going to convert to “Islam” because it is likely guided by the Mystery School or is masonic. Churchill was mason and this is a connection that is important for understanding why Christianity is on the way out and being replaced by Islam, you can see the mystery School Cult minion in politics everywhere are changing policies to accomplish this.
The “Atlantis Rising” is the “Thugtopia Rising” or the “Rising of the Fiery Phoenix” or the “Great work”… there are more names of the Mystery School’s takeover of the world with World Governance. Christians are set-up to have their good-will and good-intent to be undermined.
Crop-Circles are solved as a Mystery School high-tech fraud.
Quora deleted my exposure of who makes the Crop-Circles with evidence from a Cult minion.
https://computerbraininterface.science.blog/2018/12/23/crop-circles-solved-and-now-i-find-a-member-of-the-thug-network-admitting-to-it/
Many cult websites want to identify you for when the thugs start walking the streets like the Nazi brown-shirts thugging their sheeple.
Study Myron C. Fagan “Red Stars over Hollywood” and “1967”
Study Yuri Bezmenov Subversion of Populations for takeover… USA
Study your dreaming-self and the Seth-Books and read “The Nature of Personal Reality” to develop your inner senses before the Cult springs their trap
YES! Quora certainlydoes suck.. CONTROL FREAKS!
I think the worst thing about the site is the people, especially the career Quorans. They’re possibly the worst kind of people I’ve ever met on the internet. If you think Quora moderation is poor you haven’t seen the way power users behave under any kind of scrutiny of questionable behaviors. This is coming from years of experience on the site. Don’t even think about trying to slight them in any way, since they seem to be the ones running the site. Most of them have zero accountability and act as unofficial moderators, which means if they wish so they can virtually kick you out of the site possibly by commanding their followers to mass downvote or mass flag you which I suspected have happened a lot more than anyone’s knowledge. And here’s the kicker: since downvotes, flaggings and reports directed at you are mostly either invisible, anonymous, or both, anyone who wants to do so can abuse the system and getaway with it unscathed! This is a recipe for disaster for a site that demands users’ credibility upfront.
This is such a hypocritical move from Quora, considering they are so very much concerned about our real identities and even ask for ID whenever they’re suspicious of us? Just think about it for a minute, what kind of website with an ethical standard would force us to reveal our real identity, yet can’t even give us an accountable and crucial information of some moderation aspects? It’s real creepy when you think about it, almost like dictatorship who silently censor or remove you at a moment’s notice. To anyone out there, my advice is stay away from the site as much as you can.
I just reported a power user for a thinly veiled suggestion that OP should commit suicide. My reply to him, saying “Being NT isn’t license to be a jerk to someone with issues” got deleted for “Not being friendly/nice” or whatever their policy is. His post is still up, because, you know, telling someone to go kill themselves is totally friendly. Forget that dumpsterfire of a site. Their site is trash. Their UI is trash. Their moderation is trash. Their info sec is UTTER TRASH. Delete your accounts and save yourselves the inevitable frustration of watching real time abuse go unbanned.
I ask about why lqbtq community seems cannot handle criticism. And they banned me temporary for 1 mnth..so i cannot edit/answer (but still can view q/a)… i dun think my question is harmful..because i see a lot pro lgbtq quickly answer with anger and disrespectful tone for some simple question…i guess i found answer here..the mod is from some triggered liberal BS…
I thought you would know NEVER EVER question the lgbtq crowd! They are above such things.
I was attacked And mocked by an article on personal story on coming out as lbgtq, I quickly left Quora,very tricky site .
Now I’m using this to filter out all Google search results which are from the Quora domain.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-search-filter/eidhkmnbiahhgbgpjpiimdogfidfikgf
Interestingly, China has blocked Quora even though it’s English only and most Chinese internet users hardly ever read English online. They must have done something that really pissed off the Chinese government.
I opened up my email from the moderators of Quora and it stated my name has not been verified. Therefore I am not allowed to post on Quora. After writing 900 questions and thousands of answers is this their way of dumping me from their site? I posted my true name and gave them both my LinkedIn and Facebook profiles. Perhaps they want my birth certificate too. Please comment. Thanks.
I get lots of requests for answers particularly on Tinder subjects which i always tell people is for whores and prostitutes, married men and cheating women and that Tinder is owned by the same media group that own Quora
so it took only a week before they stopped sending me the questions .
Quora is like an Indian call centre.
people sitting in booths dreaming up the most immature and ridiculous questions you can image so I answer them with the same gusto and disdain that the question begged for.
You are so correct. Quora is, in my opinion, an oasis for criminal activities and have such an inhumane policy in which they maintain no liability for anything and for any reason. This website is a disgrace, all in my opinion of course. An example of the types of people you can reach using Quora follows. This email was received within approximately 12 minutes of my logging on seeking illegal activities.
–actual email–
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 2:29 PM, hack ninja wrote:
Just like I told you earlier I am a credit expert and over the years I have built a name for myself and that’s why people testify to my work on reddit quora and other platforms you can check me up on quora I am Herman Gibson so put your mind at rest you are in safe hands please send me those Informations I require , also it’s gonna cost you a little bit more money because of the procedures and kind of encrypted format used , it’s gonna cost you 800 dollars in total sir .
All I can say is you’re doing great, Quora. (Allegedly)
Yes, I agree with most of your points. I actually do like Quora and find some thoughtful responses there, but I am sick of all the privacy-invading requirements. I think this is all due to being owned by Google, which also does not respect privacy. I found this out the hard way–some colleagues at my last employer set up a group on google to post messages about finding new job leads when the business was closing down. We only had to provide our email address. I had a Yahoo address, and a colleague let me know that everyone else in the group now could see things that I had posted on old newsgroups, some of which were very embarrassing. I had no idea that could even happen. Later I joined Quora and I forgot my login but it allowed me to use my Facebook login (it was so easy) so I did that, but then I started finding out that my Facebook friends were seeing things that I wrote on Quora, which I did not intend…
Can anyone sue Quora please and help it shut down? It’s full of joke question/answers, narcissists obsessed with eugenics and sociopaths. They are profiting off selling wrong information. I’m tired of seeing this site show up in the search feed. It’s quite clear that they are paying Google to put them up in the results.
They allow the stupidest questions on this site like “Which race is more beautiful X or Y?”, “Why is X race lighter than Y race?”, “Why is X race less attractive than Y race?” and other crap. The users on that site are clearly mentally challenged.
The Narc victim crew is almost as bad. I watched one of them tell someone to go kill themselves and my report was never even acknowledged, while my reply was censored. Any power user on that site may as well be a mod.
Well, my biggest complaint is that blatantly wrong answers, even legal ones, are left up, and if you answer that other answers are wrong, even if you link evidence, they threaten to ban and delete your answers. We are talking ridiculous stuff like leasing a car is cheaper than buying (almost never in the long run) or in my case, legal real estate answers that as an expert in the field I know the other answers are wrong…
This is all absolutely correct except that Quora “moderators” include some GOP officials at the very top, who will do exactly as described above, to people who call out GOP prospects or officials. There is very clear political targeting of anyone who challenges the rhetoric or positions of a clique of people who run both US parties. Example: Saying that Ben Carson is the moral leader of the Republican Party (GOP) and that effectively all of that party is committed to his position that there are no “war crimes” and that power is its own justification, is enough to get one permanently banned from Quora. Really very amazing. There is absolutely no reason to use Quora, given the privacy risks & censorship & identity theft (rewriting your questions & answers for instance), and of course the audience composed of those who will tolerate this kind of abusive “service”, which should be banned in the EU.
Quora is really a liberal leftist website.
Many of my comments have been collapsed by quora. Some of the comments were rude. However, some were just normal, one sentence comments.
In FB, nobody is sitting infront of computer and reading all the reported comments. Its technical and automatic artificial intelligence which does all the activities. However, in quora, sometimes, I think, human intelligence is behind this moderation procedure- a leftist liberal loser’s “intelligence”.
I will tell certain possibilities-
Possibility 1
Now, I am exactly not sure if quora is proislamic. Many anti muslim questions and answers are there in quora. I think, if many people are posting anti muslim contents in response to questions.
Muslims are soooo religious, they have a habit about complaining against anything which is anti muslim. If artificial intelligence systematically targets and deletes reported answers, more anti muslim comments will get banned.
If a Muslim is abusing Hinduism, I will simple think that this person is a mentally unstable piece of loser garbage and carry on with the surfing. Max to max, I will write a comment “hey, is your mom still sleeping with Hindus” I will not have the energy to report the comment. However, that muslim may report my comment and get it deleted.
Possibility 2
There is a human intelligence in quora. A leftist intelligence targeting anti islamic comments. I had made a harmless comment about a muslim country. Nowhere were the words muslim, islam mentioned. Still that comment got deleted. My another comment about russians and communists also got deleted. They dont delete comments in answer section where there are many anti muslim answers. They target the comment section.
Quora is an ugly mess.
Even though they’re run by googly, their recent overhaul has gone spectacularly wrong.
Plus everything you wrote is true.
I won’t get into the situation, but I was nailed by an aggressive, cold, manipulative Quora contributor, when all I tried to do was back that sleazy hack, from an attack by a truly unstable OP. Now I’m being “reprimanded” by Quora. I did nothing wrong.
Also, you can ask any question you want. It doesn’t matter to quora how evil it is. Should you respond, in s way Quora finds doesn’t live up to their stupid BNBR paradigm, again you’ll be banned. Kill Quora Now, I say.
I hate how bias some people are when it comes to a lot of the cringey questions they ask. There’s a lot of them that take their opinions as facts. I saw somebody right there quick opinion on a stupid question and some guy responsive three big paragraphs about how he’s wrong and what he believes is a fact. So cringy but then again that’s every website where people answer questions or talk. I hate Reddit and YouTube comment sections as well. I also hate certain articles and sites on the web too.
LOL personally I hate most of the internet except for a few things. I think of some of the fake news, labels, and weird people that would have never been anything if it wasn’t for the internet. I find most of the crap in my head is from the internet as well as many peoples viewpoints.
You just have to use the web wisely.
The internet has changed communicating with others in a most unnatural way.
Another Angle Here
I have just wasted a large amount of hours going through the ‘Quora’…it has become clear to me this is one of the most underrated sites in terms of liberal propaganda.
That place is a cesspool of bull, I feel like I need to wash my eyes.
it is remarkable if nothing else for the subtlety in which its pushed.
Wow. just wow. not to mention the questions asked sound like they were written by 10-year-olds, the fact is they were probably written by 25-year old millennial kids. the replies given bestow upon you all manner of politically correct, feminist, anti-establishment, socialist/multicultural, anti-American garbage while sounding so superior and ‘informed’ and subtly ingraining in peoples heads such softness and pacifism that I am not sure whether to laugh at the idiot liberalized writers & Apparently also MODERATORS, who are 30 year old manchildren, or cry.
I’m known in other places for my comprehensive rebuttal of leftist rants, and my deeply traditional views. in this case I am exhausted, I need to take a minute break/T-OUT and process this BS. Shit. Shit. Shit. Holy Motherfucking Shit. Just WOW.
People stay the heck away from the ‘QUORA’
Lol , well put don’t leave out psychopaths kiddies!
I had only been on the site for three days and was told twice my name was in breach of their policy. I couldn’t understand why because it is my name. How can someone’s name be in breach of their policy. I was furious and shut down today. never touch that site again.
D’Angelo and Cheever created a unique Chinese Troll site that regales in Blah-Blah on how great China is and that it is soon to be the cat’s meow of the world. The reality is that it is a sickly bizarre amalgam of fantasies on what the world…is not. (I’m commenting specifically on the Chinese comments here. There are moments of lucidity in other fields at times.)
And the Control Freak editors really should be perusing Winnie the Pooh for their Highlights.
I completely agree that Quora sucks! The only thing thing they do well is to be at the top of the search engine so as an unsuspecting newbie, you click on it and immediately it is obnoxious with the “create an account” b.s., etc. I know better now when posing a query to check and make sure it is NOT Quora because I won’t be duped again!
It is also worth noting that last year Quora decided to completely remove the ability to add any question details. This means that there is no way to add any context or details to a question.
You only can write a few words for a question and that’s it. They allow ability to add a “link” for context – but this is only an attempt to black hat manipulate google search algorithm to increase rankings with stolen backlinks.
I actually went back there a few times over the last year about to ask a question, but without any option to add any details or context to the question, there was no way to ask the question to get a specific answer so I left without asking anything.
The site is mainly designed for stupid questions and stupid answers. You may have heard, “there’s no such thing as a stupid question”. FALSE. A stupid question: “why is the sky red?” “why is the tallest person only 200 feet tall?” There are many stupid questions. Quora isn’t meant to be useful or helpful, just a stupid gimmick to get ad revenue through large amounts of useless traffic that help no one.
Quora is garbage period! If you don’t agree with the majority opinion on that question, or you say you don’t understand their morality, they act all offended and attack you. Somehow encouraging better, spiritual positive behavior and that you won’t tolerate bullying will just get you ridiculed and downvoted. I’ve seen a question about how demisexuals are abnormal, the best answer got the most down votes, the answer that says “That’s how it should be, they shouldn’t cheat on each other”. Everyone hated that answer for some reason. It’s hard to know what’s “acceptable ” in that community or not. Another thing is that spiritual people and religious people are always attacked and called “stupid”. Yet they’ll swear to the moon that Christians are the ones attacking them even though Christians (the majority of them) have been very polite on the internet. They’ll say that religious people are dumber/close minded, not realizing you need an open mind to think beyond the physical world. Thing is rude behavior towards spiritual people is tolerated (even encouraged), but criticism towards an atheist will give hundreds of downvotes and people blocking you. They say it’s an “intellectual site”, but intellectual sites are usually non-biased. But jerks on there will tell you “no website is unbiased” or “We can do whatever we want, screw you!” If you want to be an intellectual or high brow site like you keep making yourselves out to be, you need to actually act like it. Bs site, just a more wordy version of Yahoo Answers.
It is extremely left-leaning and if you stray from progressive talking points, the community will report you and you will be banned. If you don’t want to use your real name, you will be be banned. It’s a trash website whose aim is to know who their political enemies are. End of story.
I can hardly imagine having such an aversion to people I’ve never met. The people are so annoying. In medicine, it’s termed “bedside manner”. What they mean when they say things like that, is “You are a fuc*ing idiot. We can’t say those words, because you and the rest of the SJW pu**ies won’t be able to work in the morning, and I care about my coffee a hell of alot more than I your feelings. You know what? I’ll bet, that if you did things that you were proud of, your experiences in the world would be much different. Your friends and family probably wouldn’t even have to lie for you”. That’s probably what they meant, though…
I agree that many people have simply become too sensitive these days. People are starting to wake up though.
Yes people have definitely become more sensitive these days but then what do we expect. We created something that gives you Millions of trolls, and outrageous opinion in front of your face. It was bound to have affect on people. You go back to like the 70s and people were shunned from those things and kept at a minimum for most. You can only handle so much.
Great article! It’s funny how a “public forum” like quora can censure and distort what people say and still seem a source of veracity and intellect. I found this article because a statement attributed to a quora writer was total bull sh*t and I was curious who funds this web-rag. That seems to be a national security question…hahaha. Thanks for the breakdown of quora’s many shortcomings.
I was doing some research regarding hiring blacklists the other day. Although it is common knowledge among HR that blacklists exist, and even some states regulate these blacklists, as can be found from almost any source, on Quora every answer is completely uninformed and calls it “some mythical blacklist” vehemently denying the existence of “any blacklist” and trying to make the asker look stupid. Obviously, all those are false because hiring blacklists most certainly exist. Quora answers simply cannot be trusted, and you cannot get any valid information from any of the answers on there.
People who answer questions or give advice on Quora are quite often opinionated without being educated on the topic they are so eager to discuss. This is annoying but also can be dangerous, depending on what the topic is and who is taking this bogus info seriously.
When I first enlisted, stoopid me thought it was a goofy fun answer and question forum with real people, I learned the hard way .
Quora.com seems dead to me. Most questions whatever it is I search on Google all come with only 1 or 2 answers. Most have none. BUT if it’s a hate Trump thread or a thread designed to be one sided against him then it’s the most popular thread ever! IT’S DA BST!
I think people are bored with phone apps as most of them suck especially if you are used to a computer and the news stares at you in the face. Phone people generally don’t give two flying F’ks about privacy.
I use Quora regularly for past time. Some comments here are correct. It annoys me deeply that when a popular Quoran only farts, he gets thousands of upvotes already.
But this guy above here who complained that he was more or less accused of being homofobic and then uses the word “***” all the time… come on please. Freedom of speech is great, but keep it decent.
And then the people complaining about atheism. If this is a field of interest you have highlighted, sure you get the idea that it is all about atheism. I had really nice discussions with christians, muslims or hindus, who were able to accept criticism and who were perfectly able to keep a discussion going without fingerpointing or quoting passages of the bible or quran.
If freedom of speech doesn’t let you say whatever you want, even if it is offensive, then it is not freedom of speech. If he wants to namecall, he is allowed, that is the very “freedom” in freedom of speech, that no one is restricting what you say.
If you say “freedom of speech as long as you follow these rules”, or “freedom of speech as long as what you say is nice and doesn’t offend me or someone else”, then it is not freedom of speech. If you think restricting freedom of speech is freedom of speech, you have missed the entire point of freedom of speech.
In regards to religious dialog, you cannot have a religious discussion if you refuse to hear the religious standpoint they have; and as almost every religion is based on a sacred text (including atheism which is based on sacred textbooks which they defend with religious veracity even in the face of being completely unfounded or false), if you are unwilling to hear about their sacred book then you are unwilling to dialog with that religion.
I enjoyed using Quora for about a year. I was happy about a year ago when a post I made was moderated as not being nice and respectful. Apparently someone had reported my post and they had not looked at it but simply deleted it. I appealed because what that complainer said was not nice were quotes from Ben Franklin and Thomas Paine used to support an answer that was about Islam. I argued that to delete my post was to effectively agree with the complainer that those great minds were racist and inappropriate (nothing could be further from the truth), A few days later I received an apology and the answer was reinstated. So great it works.
Lately however I have found that any report even a spurious one results in the post being removed and the appeal is always upheld without explanation just a repeat of the Be Nice policy. The last time was another Muslim complainer who objected to me calling Mohammed an illiterate peasant which of cause he was, I also made reference to him personally murdering 700 Jews a crime against humanity. This has gotten me banned without appeal.
I could change my email its easy for me as I have a URL and can create as many Email address as I like but I won’t because I now realise this is not a discussion site but rather a site for leftist liberals and religious right wingers. It has become everything is tried not to be and has effectively allowed itself to be hijacked by some really nasty people with more than a little bit of ulterior motives.
hahaha.. quora is so popular in the world..!!
even in china its so popular..!!
iam from china and i love quora
people are so closed minded unlike this..!!
china will rule
Quora would like you to think it is some magical crowd source of answers. The unfortunate reality is that is is just another left wing snowflake echo chamber. Anything not in lockstep agreement with the current San Francisco Newthink violates “be respectful, be nice” policy automatically and gets any non leftists banned. Fact free vitriol and sedition from leftists is fine on Quora, responding with facts no matter how well supported is “not nice”.
Great post, John. But you missed one reason: Quora doesn’t require — or even encourage — citations.
Therefore, it does not encourage people to consult sources or verfiy facts before answering. Most of the answers are just “off the top of my head” garbage.
Any answer without a citation that refers to empircal facts is either eye-witness testimony or hearsay.
But if I ask a question about the US Civil War or the Big Bang, I’m really unlikely to get an answer from
an eye-witness. 🙂
A Quora answer is allowed to stand if it sound convincing–not because it’s facts are true. Quora is sophistry,
not science. It’s not about being correct, it’s about *sounding* correct–and being in the majority. Can 100
idiots be wrong? You bet they can!
You can’t establish the temperature of a room by taking a vote. You need a thermometer.
The least an answerer can do is to indicate who’s word he is taking; cite his sources. Otherwise, it’s just a personal opinion. You know what they say about opinions….
Hello, I’m from Italy. I wrote on Quora for two months and today I made the decision to delete my account.
Why?
I was never rude to anyone, yet I got two e mails with accusations of violation on their terms of policy.
Quora is full of troll questions about Italians, it’s full of people who write LIES about us and they’re very rude. They write a lot of untrue, unfounded things about our habits, culture, they write false things about Italian men and women, they created an Italy which doesn’t exists, and if I dare to reply they have written false things, the rude one is me…their moderators have threatened me two times to delete my account because I’m rude, while I’ve never insulted anyone.
Quora sucks, and it’s full of ignorant, envious, stupid people.
Quora really sucks…
I found your site after they sent me the “real name” violation. You’re telling me they want a picture of myself too? Screw that. They can see my Google picture. My real name is Alfred E. Neuman.
OHHHH Quora SUCKS! Their idiot mods, hidden an answer I wrote, that was mildly popular, APPARENTLY because I write to well. They said it was without attribution. How do I attribute something that was written off of the top of my head was my appeal. They posted a link to some tards VERY TURDY website which reblogged my answer on thier site ATTRIBUTING THE ANSWER TO ME VIA QUORA. I pointed that out to the dummy mods. SILENCE. Screw Quora and that lil nerdy turd who runs it.
I’m surprised that the most glaring reason that Quora sucks is not given: The people suck (mostly).
About 20% of the people post their putative intelligence quotients, which is at least as dubious as it is annoying. But the real issue are the many who post derisive comments to “one up” others to respond or to belittle a person posing an honest question. It’s like, “Get a life, yo!” And it’s not like 90% of these people qualify to be Albert Einstein’s drinking buddy — more the stuff you’d expect to read from someone who just figured out how to self-publish on Amazon.
Haha I was better off at the bar after a few , better conversations and bs answers to life !
I responded to a comment made by some ignorant PHD economist that is clearly Keynesian in their own liberal philosophy and my account was banned by them for their lack or will to accept my point of view as legitimate as they cannot identify my name and address. There is no justified action in this as they just didn’t like the facts I pointed out about how badly Keynesian policy had put the US economy and debt in while lowering interest rates to create a false economic stimulus that is not sustainable by constantly doing the same thing until you cannot lower interest anymore and come up with printing money called quantitative easing.
Because they did not like these facts in my response to this and couldn’t dispute them they attacked my account as being fake.Forget Quora. They serve no purpose whatsoever. They are the fake ones that flake out once they find something they disagree with. I have been using the same email address I used there for something like 3 decades on the web now that is considered by them as a fake address and fake account too. I have been using that address longer than google has existed.
I will never visit that site for anything ever again.
Thank you for your comments regarding the fallacies of Keynesian economics and the detriments to American economy as a result. We should have never strayed from Classical economics. Sure, classical economics could not prevent the Great Depression, but while that only lasted a few years, and all the rest of the classical economic years were successful, look where Keynesian economics has gotten us – a Great Recession, century-long disaster, over 20 trillion in debt, more than half the U.S. unemployed, and many other problems that would have never occurred under a classical economic system.
You said that Classical economics would not have been able to prevent the Great Depression. I see what you mean, as it´s like common knowledge that the Great Depression “just happened”. But every main crisis has definite causes. The Great Depression had one too (at least one, but probably more). In a nutshell, the era ensuing WWI comprised a monetary policy that resembled the Quantitative Easing of our times. The Great Depression did not fall from the sky, it was conjured up by human action.
The short crisis shortly after WWI may be an example of what can happen if Classical economics is allowed to heal itself. That´s probably why most people don´t remember that particular crisis, and why we all remember the Great Depression.
But in general, I agree with you that Keynesianism had a detrimental effect on the world.
A few points:
1. I identify as left wing – and yet I got banned from Quora (https://www.quora.com/profile/Carl-Ramirez). Apparently, people got offended at a history question I asked – even though I was using the question to come up with a rebuttal against historyrevisionists.
2. Quora is an incredibly effective learning tool. During my time there, I talked to so many people whose knowledge of the world took off in only a few days of using Quora.
3. The main flaw of the moderators is not that they’re too strict
4. Yes, I agree that it is a bad idea for Quora to force starting users to select “interests”. However, once your account is up and running, you have every right to remove these “interests”.
yeap all true, mostly it’s an atheist site, majority of questions seems religion related
YES. Quora does all this and more. I have a moderately normal name yet I was blocked under that ‘real name policy’. They asked me to prove that’s my real name. Darn it’s Alan…… nothing fake looking about it. and wanted me to give two other websites where I use that name, including Facebook and Google+. NOW they are linked to my account in a way I did NOT agree to when “proving” myself…… Which would be fine because I stick to my words but then I noticed that they can edit my questions and answers into something I did NOT say…..
They’ve banned other people I was following also and didn’t see anything that should really have gotten them banned.
Shoot Quora, Let the conversations flow. If someone asks a question (no matter how stupid) let people answer without fear of being edited or banned……
I joined to get some quick surveys for simple psycological questions for a university discussion. Questions like: Would you save one 20 year old or two 80 year olds? Would you save a two year old or a two week old? Would you sacrifice one to save two? Etc. Not only did EVERYONE ignore the rules set by clearly stated hypothetical questions (eg. Oh I’d save both) the majority of them were openly attacking the people who asked these questions. If these questions were so offensive to you, then why read them, why answer? In the end they’re just harmless questions, no one is going to make them happen in real life. Or why not just say “I’d flip a coin” or “I couldn’t choose” instead of calling the questioner a horrible heartless person who clearly hates people. It was just absolute idiocy.
I am a liberal and I hate Quora. I used Quora back in the early days to ask questions about technology, and it was useful as it catered more to a techie crowd back then. Now it has evolved into a massive cesspool of crappy “content” by their “Top writers”. In quotes because those guys are simply self-centered losers who don’t know anything, spend their whole day behind the keyboard copying and pasting cool looking pics from other websites into their “article”, then get upvotes from each other so they can circle jerk. One time I simply pointed out a factual mistake from a “Top Writer” and got banned. Seriously, they don’t know any basic facts or common sense, but will ban anyone who dares point out that out. It is just a site where idiots with too much time on their hands can go feel good about themselves.
That alone would be whatever, not like I give a crap, but the more serious problem is that the site actively promotes communist propaganda from the Chinese Communist Party. There must be some kind of arrangement going on because they are the only “American” website not blocked in China, at the time there are thousands of people paid by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Quora to promote and legitimize murders, killings, human rights abuses, genocide, destruction of religion, organ harvesting, invasion of other countries, dictatorships instead of democracy, and all types of crimes committed by China. Most likely the CCP promises Quora significant traffic on the site, so their numbers and data can look good to their investors – as long as you cater to communist propaganda.
I am not making this up myself, so see Mitchell Langbert’s comment above.
Quora…. SUCKS!!!!!
Hello Brian, thank you for your thoughts. I tend to agree.
Your reasons why Q sucks are spot on.
When they objected to my tongue-in-cheek,
family-friendly credential I bailed. Lasted about 12 hours.
Maybe a day.
Yup – “creepy” is indeed the word. Like AnnoyedAf, I also eventually signed up just to read a dratted post. First of all, if you sign in using your existing Google profile, quora wants to “manage your contacts”. Say what now? Why? Why do you need access to the contact, address, birthday, anniversary, professional information and profile pictures of the people in my contacts list? My logical guess: so that you’re not just violating my little old privacy, but the privacy of everyone I’ve ever spoken to through my google account as well.
So I googled “why does quora need to manage your contacts”, and the first few results (yes, quora results!) advises signing up with your email instead, so as to avoid making too much information available. Alright, that seems like an acceptable option, I thought. Only, when I finally got back to the post which I had wanted to read, I found that darn “real name policy” in my face. Uhhhm, no, quora, calling something a “policy” does not actually make something valid. All it does is intimidate people into complying, because “policy” sounds so authoritative and, depending on how it’s used, threatening. I had actually planned to respond to the post, but thank goodness I saw that link to the “policy” before doing so.
I was immediately incensed into googling “I hate quora”, and now here I am, responding to this post instead, which I 100% agree with!
Thanks, TechReader, for letting me comment and upvote without stalking me like an information-stealing creep!
Forced registration is more than enough reason for me to skip that site. Also it seems there is only spam there and nonsense religious posts.
Google brings them up quite often lately…
Here’s a good cautionary tale. My teenage daughter accused me last night of cheating on her dad. I googled all kinds of articles about how to deal delicately with such a situation, and Quora showed up. Never heard of it before. I signed up thoughtlessly, and checked out articles with extremely incriminating titles such as “Should you tell your kids about your affair?” etc. Today to my horror my email account showed me my two new Quora “followers” a very close family friend, and uncle to my husband. Not the easiest time deleting this account either, frustrating. Says finally “your Quora account will take up to 14 days to delete”. WTF? This is the worst example of internet privacy breaching I’ve ever seen personally. Stay away! I know, I deserve it, but whatever. Let thee without sin cast the first cyber-stone….
I am still banned from Quora because they falsely accused me of plagiarism when I did not plagiarize.
I sent them a email I didn’t plagiarize and I think I was falsely accused by people who didn’t like my Christians and conservative answers or just didn’t like me.
I also assumed they thought I violated the be nice policy, because I warned people that Muhammad said ” kill all unbelievers”, ” women are like domestic animals” and I warned people, that people who try to obey the Quran are killing people. I said I am being nice to warn people.
So, I sent a nice message to Quora and said I was not violating the ” be nice policy”, that I was being nice by warning people about that, and if I tell people that the writers of the Quran said in the Quran to ” beat your wives” ( yes, says “beat your wives” and women willingly follow this religion, I know they were brainwashed but they are adults now, they can escape that religion) that won’t be violating the be nice policy.
I also told Quora that people who obey the Quran “are murdering women, Christians, Jews, and Liberals, yes college educated Liberals. That means moderators of Quora … “are in potential danger of those people.”
I sent them another message that is slander to falsely accuse someone of plagiarism and it’s against the law to slander and then punish someone for plagiarism they did not do and “tacky at best.” Then I told them, I’m starting a blog.
When I start a blog I plan on saying all the Christians and pro Jesus Christ and YHWH things I want. On my blog I plan on saying all the conservative things I want and I will say all the lies written in Quran and say they are lies. Dear Quora, tough!
Mine was the 3rd , they didn’t like me haha , the feeling is mutual.
Part of the reason our country is in trouble is because the liberal islam-sympathizers who have not picked up a Qur`an and read the thing and read that Muhammad lied to followers and told them to kill unbelievers of ‘allah’, say islamophobia! when you try to warn people about that.
Would female liberals go to the middle east BY THEMSELVES in their pantsuits to islam-dominated countries where they arrest women for wearing pants, stone women to death for walking with a man she’s not married to or related to, where ” honor killings” prevail, where followers of Sharia Law murder people who are Christians, infidels of ‘allah’, and people who are also LIBERALS? No, I didn’t think so.
I joined quora and typed my answers.
I quoted Jesus Christ and I said Jesus Christ said that and I used ” ” and I put links where people can find where Jesus Christ said that.
Quora falsely accused me of plagiarism and banned me for a week. Falsely accusing someone of plagiarism is lying.
I typed back to Quora why I did not plagiarize and that I was falsely accused of plagiarism because they don’t like that I believe in Jesus Christ and in God. It is religious discrimination.
Those on quora who didn’t like my Christian belief, non-liberal answers so they falsely accused me of plagiarism to make my answers go away.
John– have you ever noticed the “who told ’em off best” competitive threads?
Followed by many renditions of what an awful person they are, with everyone’s own personal little touch at how clever they were at putting them down. You can almost imagine them licking their lips as they begin to type.
I get sassing some lost soul on the net. I won’t lie, I’ve done it. But 200 people? At some point, it becomes obvious forum frequent flyer muscles are being flexed, and sincerity has been lost. It’s a mob and it isn’t pretty.
I recognize the structural weak points you have mentioned but in all honesty, what did it for me is the amounts of smug people, finger wagging greedily at all un-PC, filthy in their status quo accepted manners.
I had found a handful of genuine and intelligent souls. Unfortunately between bans and edit blocks, you only have time to get endeared by a soul and they are gone or muzzled.
So yeah… account now deactivated. Thanks for the write-up btw I enjoyed to read 🙂
I participated in Quora for several months. As a libertarian, I was mostly conversing with libertarian youngsters. (I teach at CUNY in New York City.) However, at one point I responded with vigor to someone who rationalized the mass murder history of the Chinese government. I was told that my response violated Quora’s community standards. I asked them whether my telling them that they should go f*ck themselves violated their community standards, and I closed my account. Quora is indeed a left-only site, and I discourage involvement with it.
I left Quora after 3 years leaving behind over 3k answers and 3k followers. When I joined Quora it was a place where people could go to exchange ideas and information. Unfortunately, it has morphed into a wordier version of Facebook. It has become an elitist popularity contest were people care more about reading other people’s campfire stories about their personal lives but posting pictures of their cats.
Worse yet, we’re more and more questions along the lines of, “What does *insert popular Quoran’s name here* think about “X”. Said Quoran would then answer and receive dozens of upvotes and comments remarking how insightful the individual was. It was sickening. The bottom line is, with Quora facts cannot compete with fluff.
I fully agree with this article.
I was banned for a week with many Supposed violations just for telling the liberals the truth about their (religion) democratic party. Then I got totally banned and the reason why was left BLANK, in other words they had no reason other than the web site is for liberal politics only.
Quora… When I first signed up, I thought it was a well planned and visually appealing platform to voice my thoughts to the questions of others. Like you I have become aware that thanks to their snowflake protective policy, it is nothing more than a global circle #*erk for liberal propaganda.
Basically just the worst ever. Stumbled onto it many times by accident. For once decided to just sign up to get one answer. Lost the page I came through, try to get it back by typing it out… instead it posted it as a new question. Hi everyone. Feeling super exposed. Try to delete question or deactivate account. No such setting on my new account to be found. I looked. I hope it dies.
Quora is a product of the Regressive Left Bubble World that is Silicon Valley. Not only does it just slash and burn the accounts of conservatives, but also other liberals who aren’t the “right kind” of liberal. A wonderful site if you’re looking to join a circle jerk with Prius driving feminists, with their iPhones and PETA Tees.
Your point about the moderation is hugely understated. During my own time using the site, I’ve seen Quora mods practically lynch a non-feminist for an answer within an hour of it being posted, and yet, when I reported a user for sexually propositioning an underage girl, it took them more than a week to take any action over it. The moderators only really care about coddling their power users.
Also, Marc Bodnick is a neckbeareded c***, with all the moral fiber of a trust fund brat. Still, at least if he successfully monetizes Quora, he’ll be able to afford to buy himself a spine and a thicker skin.
There is one thing I feel you missed. Quora creates intellectual elitism. Why? You music ask the “right” questions to get views and not edited or moderated. You must also move in the “right” circle to get meaningful answers. Paired with needing an account for usage, it creates an atmosphere of elitism, where only the individuals who conform to a narrow subset are able to answer or give meaningful feedback. Quora panders to an elitist mentality. Use the stackoverflow range of freely available question answer sites for anything from religion, linguistics, computer science, mathematics, philosophy, etc. It’s free and open with realistic moderator support.
The stack sites are just as bad if not worse.
Quora is crappy, yes, but it doesn’t require your real name nor a picture. The main thing I find wrong with Quora is most of the questions asked are silly, but I think a lot of people on Quora are just trying to be funny.
Actually it does require your real name which needs to be verified with a real ID, and a real picture of yourself. If you don’t put your real name and real picture, you will waste a couple months writing tons of content which will all be completely deleted once some moderator disagrees with you and decides to put your account into suspension requiring your real name on your government-issued ID, ID verification, and a real picture of yourself. If you don’t give it all of your content will be deleted forever. So yes, you do need to provide that. You don’t need to provide it to create an account, no, but if you intend to really sue the site and post any opinions which don’t promote liberalism, then your account will quickly get deleted. Keep in mind that any dissenting posts can and will be deleted even if you did verify your account however. They just won’t terminate your account if you used your real name, real picture and provided them with a copy of your government ID. All of which is a huge violation of privacy.
It is a site of pseudo-intellectuals not true intellectuals, book learned people who clearly cannot form an original thought. Regarding the name situation. I was abroad in Turkey and invented a name “Moon beauty” “Never gives up” in Turkish(LOL!) and they accepted it.As I said before they are not geniuses. They are brainwashed academics not intellectuals and the sources they cite are NEOliberal not “leftis” I am a true liberal as Jesus was, I am a feminist which simply means I wish to be treated equally under the law. I expect to be paid the same as a male doing my job and if I want an abortion it is my choice. I do not vilify poor whites or glorify homosexuals and blacks. I am logical hence in my world everyone is equal regardless of socioeconomic status, race or sexual orientation.I am not Christian but I believe in the constitutional right to freedom of religion and feel homosexuals forcing Christians(or any other opposing religion including my Nature based spirituality) to accept them under the law is unconstitutional in that it violates their freedom to express their religion as guaranteed by the First Amendment. Many of my insightful-read- LOGICAL NOT HYPOCRITICAL comments were deleted by Quora. There are no liberals left in the United States hence my move to beautiful Western Europe. I believe what bothers you the most about these neoliberals is that they are completely irrational. They hate the poor and adore other “special” groups(homosexuals and gays) which is antithetical to their calling themselves tolerant and liberal. A liberal accepts all not some and tolerance by definition is for all. their hypocrisy is what bothers me most in addition to their practiced use of selected sources and trying to sound intelligent when in reality their arguments are specious.
When criticising one product, you should make a reference to another which doesn’t have the problems you mentioned.
I would like to, but there is no good alternative presently. There used to be Yahoo Answers but that went severely downhill in recent years.
When a Quora member answered a question about religion saying all religion is about love, and Islam is all about peace, I responded with a link to a Youtube video showing a hall full of Western European Muslims who all agreed (by show of hands) that adulterers and homosexuals should be killed. The person speaking was saying how they are just normal Muslims and not extremist in the least bit.
My comment was deleted and I was flagged for a hateful comment, and told I would be banned if it happened again.
That was the last straw of dealing with the moderators who can’t tell the difference between hate speech and pointing out reality. I deleted all my own questions (and over wrote them first) and deleted my account. Quora’s moderators are the perfect example of the worst idiocy the far left has to offer.