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“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora.
Any time Quora results come up my search gets an instant -Quora. That site is a wet fart… terrible
It’s like the text version of Pinterest.
I was thinking it’s like the LinkedIn version of yahoo answers
Perfect description.
Except Pinterest is good if you know what you’re looking for. Quora has always been bad no matter what you do.
It’s more that it pops up in Image Searches all the time and it’s almost always a useless example of what you’re searching for.
I only pull up Quora when I want to know the most common wrong answers to questions.
New theory: Quora is an elaborate attempt to poison LLMs
I would pull it up if it seemed directly related, but just the UX was so awful that even if it answered my question, it felt bad the whole while. Though most of the time it was the most awful LinkedIn-esque winemaking m wind bagging by people desperate to be considered professionals in their field