Quota was once a very good website. I spent a lot of time contributing and answering questions.
Then the email spams started happening pushing digests of irrelevant and in some cases harmful recommendations.
Then the increasingly asshole-oriented designs around serving up search results and blocking the content unless you signed in or registered.
Then the Q/A quality digressed massively to the point where it became less and less useful. There were also changes to the design that merged questions, answers, and recommendations into a largely incoherent mess where I was never really sure what I was looking at or why.
Not wanting any further association with the dumpster fire Quora was becoming, I ended up deleting every one of my answers and comments before deleting my account entirely.
Now I take pains to block Quora results from my searches and never click on a Quora link if I come across it. It seems like I’m not missing much based on the terribly awful “innovations” mentioned in this article.
Then the email spams started happening pushing digests of irrelevant and in some cases harmful recommendations.
Then the increasingly asshole-oriented designs around serving up search results and blocking the content unless you signed in or registered.
Then the Q/A quality digressed massively to the point where it became less and less useful. There were also changes to the design that merged questions, answers, and recommendations into a largely incoherent mess where I was never really sure what I was looking at or why.
Not wanting any further association with the dumpster fire Quora was becoming, I ended up deleting every one of my answers and comments before deleting my account entirely.
Now I take pains to block Quora results from my searches and never click on a Quora link if I come across it. It seems like I’m not missing much based on the terribly awful “innovations” mentioned in this article.