If There Are No Stupid Questions, Then How Do You Explain Quora?

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If There Are No Stupid Questions, Then How Do You Explain Quora?

Unread post by Hemiauchenia » Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:24 am

Two interesting recent articles In The Atlantic and Slate about the increasingly degraded state of Quora. Both articles focus on how the profit-driven motive of Quora leadership ultimately resulted in the decline of question quality, the rise of toxicity and trolling and drove away the highest quality users from the website.
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Re: If There Are No Stupid Questions, Then How Do You Explain Quora?

Unread post by Vigilant » Mon Feb 12, 2024 2:10 am

Enshittification.
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Re: If There Are No Stupid Questions, Then How Do You Explain Quora?

Unread post by Zoll » Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:43 pm

Memes for boomers/millennials/gen x, without Facebook conspiracy theories
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