Does anyone here write on Quora very often? How do you like it?

In My Humble Opinion
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I write answers on Quora fairly frequently - how about you? Do you enjoy it?

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Occasionally, when its something I have a solid understanding of. (Grammer not being one of them). There are so many, “Who would win - two dozen Pennywise clowns with an up-armored trebuchet or a hoard of ninjas with night vision goggles?” questions that have to wonder if they are AI generated.

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I’ve lurked on Quora now and then for several years, but I’ve never asked or answered anything.

It seems like the quality of both questions and answers on Quora has declined significantly in the last year or so, so keep fighting the good fight, Bibliovore2.0.

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Good luck keep fighting the good fight, but I gave up on Quora a couple of years ago.

I don’t have massively broad experience with it, but in the forums I followed there seemed to be self-appointed topic experts who gave the “definitive answer” to virtually every question. They basically slammed anyone else who had an opinion, pedantically and snakily pointing out why you were technically wrong (in some cases just like SDMB :face_with_raised_eyebrow:.)

I also found that the feeds it was suggesting to me were topics I was interested in, but very often threads that hadn’t been updated in years.

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I do, mainly out of boredom. Answering questions also sometimes helps put them straight in my own mind.

There are some good people on there, but there are also a huge number of bots asking automated questions, and the admins seem to be very slow at taking them down. Recently there were a series of questions about “London Marble Arch,” all nonsensical. It went on for a good three weeks (maybe longer), with lots of people commenting that they were amazed they hadn’t been taken down.

It almost looks like they’re desperate enough for posts that they’ll allow bots to keep up the question answering rate.

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Interesting - I’ve never heard that. Is the point of the bots just to suck people into replying or posting? (To generate more views?)

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I don’t know, and I’m only theorising. It could also be that they get so many actually offensive posts that the admins are kept busy deleting them rather than obvious bots. Sometimes they really are obvious - it’s not like spotting a troll, where that’s more subjective. Dozens of nonsensical questions about “London Marble Arch” was unquestionably a bot.

But if there are lots of bots posting questions then they can say that there were whatever number of questions asked this week, which would bump their numbers up. And people sometimes do respond to them so that would increase people’s participation on the site.