I see now what a shitty website it is and I never really cared about it anyway. Quora has not indicated and proven to me that it should be trusted by anyone. Quite the contrary now. I was unverified the day after I first commented there. Contribution, irregardless of quality, seems to be unwanted if your name doesnt sound real enough. I refuse to give them my ID for privacy reasons. Quora is a totalitarian social media platform. They are restricting users of freedom of speech.
Their mission is not to spread knowledge and information as they claim , but to keep their side of the narrative on the front page. They DO censor certain opinions! I sincerely answered yes and provided information with link of cult experts to why they qualify as a mind controlling cult.
I reported it and guess what? I deleted my account and I suggest you to do the same, folks. Protest injustice and leave their dirty authoritarian platform. I hope one day it shuts down. Heard nothing back. And yes, it especially happens on Reddit in certain topics, although there they cannot use your user name as the excuse to ban or stop you. Happened to me when i started posting as well.
Granted, i had been on Quora for years, posting comments with no problem. Suddenly, i received an email stating i was banned for not using my real name. So they basically get on the website with a serious power trip. I had a friend, who works at the same corporation as one of the Reddit mods. He was posting in one of the subreddits using funny pics, gifs and quotes. Thus, if anyone is wondering how this came about? Anything you say about those 4 points could as well apply to Quora.
Even more so I would say, since there is virtually no foolproof system in Quora that prevents this from being misused. They got shadow banned real quick, if not edit blocked for banned. Where do you think that will lead to? Abuse of downvote system by the circlejerk. Then there is the real name policy bullshit. In Reddit you could always make a new account to start fresh. What about Quora? What you think will happen if people start hating you for being you and doxxed you relentlessly?
You have no way to go! Your identity is bound to your name which is very bad for you but very good for those in power so they could stop more dissent by deleting someone from the platform for good. This just happened to me.
Thankfully I was already bored with QUORA and their shitty moderation my answers on NPD were considered violations because I refuse to coddle the predators so this just makes me shrug my shoulders like whatevs.
This is brilliant. Instead, they let obvious troll accounts to ooze trash content with no accountability, narcissistic losers running amok misusing the site as their ego supply and basic-bitch female users with outlandishly banal and upvote-bait answers hogging huge following and viewership simply because they have Instagram-esque profile pictures and a vagina.
See the big picture… Quora, Facebook, Twitter… you name it. In all honesty, Quora should be shut down and sink to the bottom to the deepest ocean alongside with that last big scam in the valley called Theranos. I had no idea how sick they were until I googled why I was being forced to download their app, something my storage can ill afford. Thanks to you and all the other people for writing the truth about this disgusting site. Suck it Quora. I enjoyed ur site regularly until now and I hope ur wannaZucks policy leaves u with no one but the extremely old and extremely naive and ignorant.
I hope you guys get hacked to death. Hopefully that will get my profile deleted. You are so right! I had the same problem. New swiper here…. I was only a member for a couple of weeks. I asked a few basic questions, gave a few answers, but it was all completely general stuff, nothing offensive, and my answers were to general questions, nothing that would require special knowledge or education. Well, Q threw a fit, sent me an arrogant message, chastising me for not using my real name.
I politely replied, telling them to get fucked, and promptly closed my account. Today I deleted my Quora account. What gets my goat is the sheer number of Indian Quorans who happen to be die-hard Narendra Modi supporters. Try saying anything against their bhagwaan and they will downvote your answer till the Moderation collapses it eventually. A few users are very intelligent, accomplished and there are many celebrities with Quora accounts.
But then you have all those fake celebrities who have done nothing substantial in real life and seem too chicken to appear in a real interview, but with hundreds of thousands of followers on Quora, they feel as if they have arrived. Honestly, I love Quora. But I think that the naming system truly is garbage. I hope they change in that regard.
Thank God for this article! I just got flagged for not using my full real name. Nuh uh! The Internet and the real world arealready weird places, am not going to be answering sensitive questions under my real name, God knows whose wrath I have to beget. I just recently got sent the email as well. Quora and these social media sites think they are some kind of real deal and somehow think we should provide our real name. Good grief! I certainly understand your outrage.
As if opening myself up to be stalked or doxed is the right thing to do. If I were a troll or always harassing other users I could understand being flagged and required to use my real name.
Delete the account. I have done it as well. If they act like a dictator. I had similar problems refused to supply ID, pointed out the pointlessness of the policy as users can post questions and answers anonymously and left for about a year. Update on my situation… Shortly after posting this comment, Quora re-flagged me.
Half an hour later unflagged me, then ten minutes after that re-re-flagged me. I have asked, both politely and somewhat less diplomatically, why people who need to maintain a certain level of anonymity can not do as such violent repercussions of publicising names of site users apparently be damned.
Odd considering that line of spousal abuse questions! I did like the site. I had friends that I interacted with from time to time and I felt my answers particularly on my professional wheel-house topics helped other readers. Until this shitcake policy is revoked or at least loosened to the point it is voluntary, Ill be keeping my distance. I very much appreciate this article. I was already frustrated with them for trying to force me to have an account, but I thought the frustration would end once I got one.
Unaware of the real name policy, I signed up the way I always do, with my initials. I lasted mere days. Yesterday, someone who is presumably a lawyer and therefore presumably a critical thinker with good command of their native language also mine , responded to one of my comments in a way that demonstrated they completely misunderstood my comment.
The comment felt a little vitriolic, as good faith would have someone frame it in more of an encouraging way. Nevertheless, I knew what was coming. This is against MY personal policy. Internet anonymity is important. Is there an alternative community similar to Quora. This site seems to fill in some of the Quora gaps. Thanks for your article. Made me feel better about being Quora bullied. It would be a breath of fresh air. Why do we need any site to invade our privacy?
I just had the name policiy in my mailbox and am not able to answer anymore on Quora. Are they nuts? They treat their users with total disrepect.
Blocking them for a name they do not trust or like. And that after people have put so much time and energy into their website. This is a serious sign of lack of moral by the people governing that website. I agree. The only way, I repeat, the only way to deal with the naming policies that they will not change is to literally kill quora, and that means to stop using it. I already hate Quora for forcing me to signup to view answers.
And forcing me to download its app on mobile. Now I hate it more. They officially launched Quora to the public one year later. Quora is a question and answer website that allows users to create and answer questions. Further, they require people to use their real names, not screen names, adding credibility and quality. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California. They wanted to build a beautiful, yet simple knowledge platform that let people anchor their spinning curiosity.
They saw a gap in the marketplace for a user generated site that focused on contributor reputation, quality and sharing. Often compared to Yahoo! Answers but more innovative and simply better. Cheever was still hesitant about the idea. He made a conscious effort to write down everything he was curious about in a day. This simple exercise exposed and validated the reality of internal curiosity.
After coming up with a list of 1, names, they narrowed it down to 5. Q uor a starts with a Q question and ends with a A answer. Perhaps they wanted to be different. Lastly, Quora was derived from Quorum, meaning a group of people coming together to reach a consensus. Thanks for reading why is it called Quora. He is passionate about creative marketing, design and brand etymology.
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