Goodbye Quora: I won't waste another second of my time on you

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3058141
by AwesomeTogether • 15 years ago
6 1 15 years ago

Yesterday someone posted a question on Quora, and I posted an answer to help them out. But then one of Quora's self-important moderators came along and decided there was something inappropriate about my answer and collapsed it, in spite of the fact that it was an honest answer and had already gotten one upvote. O sure, the moderator kindly left an email address I could complain to but if Quora's going to make it that hard to help people, then fuck them! Why would I want to email this person or one of his anonymous buddies to fight over the use of bullet points in my answer?

Meanwhile, my news stream is showing exactly what kind of stupid little questions and answers Quora really wants.

"How did Tracy Chou (an engineer at Quora) learn Mandarin?"

"What part of Facebook did Rebekah Cox (a designer who now works at Quora) design"

"What is Charly Cheever's favorite Kate Perry song?" In case you didn't know it, Charly's a co-founder at Quora...

So it turns out that Quora's turned into this stupid little narcissistic social club where users post questions about other engineers who work at Quora...

I think Google will be glad they didn't pay $100 million for this shit service

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