Blog:Quora

Quora is a question and answer website. Users can ask questions, answer questions, and post comments.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Once you post a question, you are not allowed to delete a question once it is posted.
 * 2) They give out BNBR (Be nice be respectful) warnings over everything. Someone even got one just for telling someone not to kill themselves, while people who ask very rude/passive aggressive questions get away scot-free.
 * 3) One of the rules is that if anyone sends you threatening messages or anything of the sort, you are allowed to post screenshots publicly as proof. However you have to censor that perpetrator's name for some reason.
 * 4) If you refuse to answer a message you can get reported for "being rude".
 * 5) Your answers can get collapsed for dumb reasons like "it hurts feelings". Also, downvotes can cause answers to be collapsed.
 * 6) Convoluted and forced sign-in process that feels like a Facebook profile creation.
 * 7) *You are also forced to select 10 interests. It does not have a search bar unlike every single other data you can introduce, only shows completely general stuff until you click on something (which is inconvenient when even Facebook has a search bar), especially if you aren't interested in the topics on the list..
 * 8) In August 2017, they removed question details, limiting more specific questions that cannot be fully described in the question title.
 * 9) *Question details are archived and can be viewed in the comments. However, it cannot be viewed by unlogged users, making some older questions confusing to readers.
 * 10) Often, Quora merges together questions which are not similar enough to warrant merging. However, there are many simple mathematical questions that can easily be answered with mental math, with the submitter very likely already knowing the answer.
 * 11) *Users are also given freedom to merge questions however they like (since the site claims that every question is owned by the site's community); this allows trolls can easily merge two entirely unrelated questions together.
 * 12) You cannot browse without logging in. If you click on a link to another question, you will be prompted to log in.
 * 13) In 2021, they introduced Quora+, a system to monetize answers from experts through a paywall. This made some answers previously free to read locked behind a paywall.

Good Qualities

 * 1) There exist are professionals who can give out useful advice or knowledge on otherwise lesser known subjects.
 * 2) Many people have expressed their tragic lives stories and received support.
 * 3) There can occasionally be genuinely productive discussion in the replies to an answer.
 * 4) Many people who are struggling in their lives can receive advice and recommendations.
 * 5) As many trolls and low-effort posts as there are, it is still far better moderated than. It should be noted that they have an enhanced robots.txt which keeps web scrapers (the bot blogspots which scrape and dump text from other websites into their blog pages) and most spambots out.

Trivia

 * The reason why Quora excluded Wayback Machine via robots.txt is to allow authors to delete content they may have regretted posting without leaving traces.