It's interesting to compare Stack Overflow to Quora, which was similarly great a few years ago and is now almost worthless, but in a different way. Stack Overflow suffers from militant moderators who close and delete reasonable submissions and answers due to draconian rules. Quora, meanwhile, has been taken over by spammers and idiots, and has lost any sense of trustworthiness. Just today I visited a discussion on Quora about WordPress plugins [1]. The top answer is an advertisement, the second gives an answer but offers no justification (and is also an advertisement), the third is probably an advertisement, and the fourth is again an answer without any justification. Repeat ad absurdum.
It's weird that both sites' communities have made it difficult for old users to take part, but in completely different ways.
It's weird that both sites' communities have made it difficult for old users to take part, but in completely different ways.
[1] https://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-best-WordPress-plugin-to-...