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Quora Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of Quora appears to be declining, with numerous customers expressing dissatisfaction about the platform's moderation policies and perceived bias in content removal. Many users reported experiences of censorship, particularly regarding political views, leading to frustrations over a lack of open dialogue. Despite these concerns, some users still appreciate Quora for its diverse range of topics and the opportunity to engage with a global audience. However, the prevalence of scams and low-quality content has raised significant concerns about the platform's integrity and reliability, suggesting a need for improved moderation and user support.

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Georgia
1 review
42 helpful votes
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Quora has changed dramatically this past year.
In addition to having a nasty habit of deleting and suspending anyone who doesn't agree with their obvious leftists bias; the site now allows repeated hacking and shares your personal data w/hackers, telemarketing, and gamers.
Not for kids anymore. Denied several persons requests to not promote pornography and instead inserted adds to promote it within several member's NONPORN, NONBUSINESS, NONPROFIT promotions. Again violating their own rules.

Date of experience: November 6, 2020
Australia
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Alright, but Strange
November 3, 2020

I got a message to tell me that I apparently broke a rule by asking someone to check their grammar. I don't think I have ever been so pissed off in my life.

Other than that, Quora is a good site. Even if their rules said that they only allow nice, peaceful conversations and helpful comments and whenever I scroll down I ALWAYS see rude comments.

Strange, ain't it?

Date of experience: November 2, 2020
Washington
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Quora have had some great contributors. Now they're thinning in numbers because of bad experiences and unfair moderation and it is because Quora management themselves have made the site totally unfriendly especially for newer users aspiring to succeed in the platform, especially if they have unpopular opinion. I will explain.

There are some really good writers in Quora. Not all of them are as successful or popular, unfortunately, which is a shame but the real problem is over the years Quora made it very difficult for new writers to have their own career without finding themselves at the mercy of power users. I think people should realize popularity of a user isn't always equal a sign of deep insight or good character and it shows. I can say for certain most popular users are average, and while some genuinely earned their place, some obviously just got lucky and are enjoying their platform with thousands of followers. That's not a problem on its own but what often happens because of the structure of the forum, some power users are prone to play god and think they decide who gets to be popular next. This naturally made some people feel moving around the lawn more difficult the more they get more popular because some users will start to pay attention to them and inevitably, if they said something wrong and accidentally offended some popular users either deliberately or by mistake, their career on the platform is practically finished.

That being said, when I see the newer batches of popular users it's like seeing the emperor's new clothes. They are being made to think they have their success because of their skill, talent, etc and they truly believe it. But that is not the whole story. As I said earlier, some people think they can play god. So some will decide in advance which new writer gets to be popular by deliberately promoting them regardless to make them feel good. Then they will trash the ones they don't like in the dumpster hopefully never to be seen again. No one dared to say anything, partially because of the BNBR rule and partially also because most people will find it's just not worth the time. A lot of people have seen many problems with the site and users and reviews will tell you that.

In the meantime Quora loyal users are like the emperor who thinks he's parading with his new clothes but little did he know he's being made a fool. Just like Quora users, it's only a matter of time until someone just call out that they got no clothes on, and they're being made to think they worth more than they are.

Date of experience: October 30, 2020
South Carolina
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Quora will edit or not allow facts on their site, especially if they contain Conservative values. The site is basically full of leftist idiots who have never done a single fact check in their entire lives. I've even had Quora delete my posts when I put up factual links (especially any. Gov links) backing my statements

Date of experience: October 28, 2020
Washington
1 review
4 helpful votes
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After seeing some of my favourite writers backed down and left the site for good while the jerks and bullies getaway with it I lost all my faith to Quora. I also don't like the fact many popular writers are such assh*les because of their popularity and condescending beyond measure thinking they own the place or something. These people really need to get a god damn grip like for real. So many people are so up their pieholes about their opinions and try too hard being armchair experts on every topic without credibility and minimal fact checking, it's pretty scary when opinion based answers could get so much upvote when you can Google search them yourself and find their answers are WRONG!

What also really grinds my gear though, when some really popular users don't like someone for some reason, often they WILL gang up on them and suddenly go fckin Sherlock and Sigmund fckin Freud on them stalking their profile and nitpicking $#*! and psycho fckin analyzing every single word they say and try to frame it in the worst possible light in order to kill their reputation. Like F*CK are these people fckin real? It almost feels like I'm seeing example of that infamous Trump Derangement Syndrome only this time they do it to people they don't like. But no one speaks up because they're afraid they'll be the next target or else they be getting random Bnbr for standing up to these bullies. $#*!ttttt fckkkk just DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT! It's not worth it!

Date of experience: October 26, 2020
Alabama
2 reviews
43 helpful votes
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So sick of posting real stuff and questions, all for quora to say "ob, you have crossed our guidelines, we are sorry there are too many sad little butt hurt people in this world"! That's what it should say! Looks like this country really is going down a sad path! Did not comment bad, horrible stuff, all for it to say the guidelines were crossed! Done with that pathetic lil site. As well as many others!

Date of experience: October 26, 2020
India
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Its a horrible website filled with biased information written by trolls. And the cherry on top is the fact that most organizations pay people to write fake and biased positive reviews about their organisation on quora.

Date of experience: October 23, 2020
Luxembourg
7 reviews
18 helpful votes
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No privacy!
October 23, 2020

No Privacy. Quora will monitor your cookies and browsing history even if you are not logged in, they will not respect you unsubscribing from emails.

Date of experience: October 23, 2020
India
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Its a worst thing
October 20, 2020

Quora, the platform used to discuss and suggest anything is one of the worst things ever happened to internet. Sick people asking sick things, duffers replying them and morons are the moderators who review the comments.

Date of experience: October 20, 2020
Wisconsin
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Waste of time
October 14, 2020

Fake questions and answers. Nothing is factual. Disturbing photos of animal abuse. Political posts are offensive.

Date of experience: October 14, 2020
Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Israeli controlled
October 8, 2020

Like everything else in the United States including donald trump, quota is under the control of the zionists in israel. I tried to tell the truth months ago about israel at quota and got expelled

Date of experience: October 8, 2020
Washington
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Internet 2020 is as messed up as it could possibly be with social media and Quora is just another prime example of why not everyone deserves to have their opinion be taken seriously when they haven't earned the trust, expertise nor courage to voice it with robust credibility. History will eventually take note of this decade as the age where democracy and free speech failed the very people that needs them, not necessarily because the system is bad but merely because too many people let too many morons and mentally unwell people ran the show. What do people expect out of all this, is beyond me. That a global-scale responsibility be handed to gullible, possibly stupid impressionable people that just got lucky and went viral because they said and did dumb $#*!? Or to people who manipulated everyone to vouch for them while screwing everyone else over on the process? Or to people who have a nice rack and pretty face? Or hand them to people who merely can string together a couple of words to make you feel all fuzzy inside? Betcha that will an embarassing sight if that goes anywhere near a history book in years to come for future generation to see. I think people don't realize the extent of the consequences of what they did in the long term. Can you imagine yourself reading history a century later looking up notable people in 2020 and all you see are thots, sociopaths, attention seekers, narcissists and some random teenage girl who left school to talk about climate change with no real expertise under her belt while being puppeteered by the adults around them? Me neither, but that sounds scarily real at the rate this is going. But whatever, it's not like I have 10 mil followers to have my credibility cranked up and be taken seriously anyway, why listen to a random review for an internet website?

Date of experience: October 5, 2020
India
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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A wonderful app
October 5, 2020

They are transparent and not biased... a great app to see answers of many questions and to post a review for a company... whether it is negative, they do not delete it.

Date of experience: October 4, 2020
New York
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Great QA site
October 5, 2020

Very helpful site for questioning and answering. If you need to know something just ask in Quora. You will get the best answer here.

Date of experience: October 3, 2020
Florida
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Waste of time
September 29, 2020

Wasted my time on this poor excuse of an app, couldn't even look up info for my wisdom teeth without answering 20 questions and being forced to follow people. Will stick to regular google, total waste of my time and patience.

Date of experience: September 28, 2020
Canada
7 reviews
68 helpful votes
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I'm a world leading expert in my field and was treated like dirt by Quora and members alike. I want no part of it anymore. I strongly recommend never posting anything of value there, for they will try to steal your intellectual property after crippling your account on false pretenses.

Date of experience: September 25, 2020
Washington
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Every pretentious quora user is like senpais on internet pls notice me, I have IQ of ******* gimme upvote and compliments pls to validate my empty existence. Smh I've never been so furious reading things on internet until quora, which usually takes me a lot to get near half the level of that fury and that's saying somethin. Okay we understand every poor souls out there need validation online nowadays but dang, ppl need to chill the fk out. I dont think assassinating someone's character online over minor disputes translates well into a person of good character but idk maybe that's just me. I've seen that happened more times than I can count. But I'll say this, internet is better off without social media and I think quora should be first on the list for complete purging. Even instagram can wait. Studies has shown people's mental health have been ruined because of social media and let me say this, quora is so much worse than instagram. Shocking right. The only reason no one knew is because the darn site is so irrelevant which is good and bad thing at the same time. Good thing because they're irrelevant so their bad influence can't reach the level to be dangerous but bad because many abuses happening on site never went outside, which makes it perfect space for abuse and why the site is so rife with bullies perverts scammers and other shady untrustworthy characters.

Date of experience: September 24, 2020
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
17 helpful votes
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Brainless sheeple
September 17, 2020

Don't trust this site. It is run by the fools of the headless table. They demand you give them your identity and they hand it out like it's a piece of tooty fruity.

Date of experience: September 17, 2020
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Unfair Company
September 16, 2020

This company only allows you to speak your truth if it aligns with theirs. They will suppress your truth by deleting your comments. They are bigoted and I will be deactivating my account. I don't trust them.

Date of experience: September 15, 2020
Washington
1 review
7 helpful votes
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When I first hear about the website is a communist website ran by CCP, I thought that it's a lot of balloony from people who like to blow things out of proportion. Internet being what it is today when people disagreeing with you can be called a nazi, it's hard to take that kind of statement seriously anymore. But I realized something interesting recently after some digging. Obviously I can't confirm CCP involvement but if people say this website holds communist agenda, I think it holds some water. At this point I won't even be surprised if a lot of power users turned out to be secretly commies, at least in ideology.

You see in communism people have to be the "good commie" to be exempted from punishment. For anyone to live peacefully in a commie state you don't have to have merit or contribute to anything, you only have to blindly follow the rules as mandated from state. Freedom of speech is non-existent, and there are narratives and statements everyone has to keep in mind or memorize about the commie manifesto and what have you. One wrong step, and you will get either humiliated in public, blamed for disrupting public order for speaking up to yourself or sent to exile camps. Ring any bells yet? Just replace the word 'good commie' and commie with 'good Quoran' and Quora and the manifesto as 'BNBR' and you see the puzzle pieces magically piece together by itself.

Don't get fooled though, some of these people often pay lip service about freedom of speech, democracy and what have you to give the impression they're all about fairness and equality. But as some have said, action speaks louder than words and you only have to look at the evidence with sober eyes to see what type of behavior resembles what kind of ideology in practice.

Basically, no matter how good of a person you are, if you're not a good Quoran, you won't be there for too long. Does it sound familiar? Like you've heard about that somewhere?

Date of experience: September 13, 2020