Quora Reviews 1,420

As a user, I find Quora can be frustrating at times. There’s a lot of good information, but it’s often buried under repetitive answers or off-topic comments. Plus, the quality of responses can vary, making it hard to find reliable insights quickly.

This site is full of lies and disinformation. I think it reflects the state of this very ill world and the pathetic human creatures in it

At the beginning of the first lockdown (UK) Quora seemed the perfect space for broadening the mind through exchange of well researched fact driven information (and opinion) outside of the mainstream ‘press’. I valued it as a tool for broadening my general knowledge and to practice my own written communication skills.

Then ‘top writers’ I was following began to evaporate (commonly claiming need to take a break from sustained ‘troll’ campaigns apparently focussed on seeing to it that their posts were deleted). There was a common assumption that human input was either entirely absent (at least until some formal complaint or challenge to an automated ‘decision’ had been made), and a hefty suspicion of bias in favour of the US Republican Party political agenda.

Then my own posts began being deleted too. In each case unfairly (in my view), most recently after calling out the Trump / Vance disinformation campaign with respect to Springfield OH (by way of providing fact checked links calling out out nefarious Republican claims of Haitian ‘illegals’ chucking their hosts pet cats and dogs onto the barbie as entirely bogus and counterproductive to constructive ‘debate’). I made two posts on the same thread - both were deleted long after I had written them without any explanation as to why other than ‘contrary to our spam policy’).

I had already discovered the ‘appeal’ process to meet with intransigence on behalf of the platform ‘management’ - although I did once (only) have a light humoured comment referring to the term ‘Faggots’ (as meaning a tasty plate of meatballs to lots of us Brits) restored. But it took a lot of effort.

Through this experience I came to agree with my departed top writers that the moderation process within the platform is ineffective, that devoting time to constructing well written and researched pieces was proving ‘not worth the bother’, that moderation decisions tend to be pro US Republican, (and also somewhat anti ‘Brit’), and the frustration of having to cope with content being summarily deleted thanks to sustained coordinated troll activity on the site just wasn’t worth the persevering with.

A major downside to my ‘dabble’ on the site: Quora had wormed its way into every corner of my online ’presence’ - Quora ‘results’ coming up first in every search for a good long while after I tried to dump the platform from my daily life. I actually have to now add ‘:-Quora’ to online searches to prevent this revolving door from spinning ad infinitum.

Deleting one’s user profile is easy enough, but there is a ‘cooling off’ period, during which if you return to the site you find yourself (equally summarily) ‘reinstated’ whether you intended to be - or not.

If it is possible to ‘hate’ a platform then I now hate Quora. It is a very good ‘test dummy’ for those who want to prove to themselves that exposing oneself online comes with negative consequence. I have read numerous reports also of Quora digital security being somewhat ‘under par’ as well.

The trolls have won.

(Proceed with caution - and install a good quality VPN).

Full of stupid fake questions that clearly lack any actual fact and likely are just to troll people. The simple act of reporting somehow requires you to enter your home address, which is concerning and strange.

Horrible customer service. Selling things they don't support.

I'm sailing away...

Quora is filled with trolls who are out to spread hate and misinformation. It's really too bad, it could be a place for intelligent people to share information and ideas but Quora is the farthest thing from that. Filled with stupid questions from trolls intended to elicit outrage and emotional responses and people who are stupid enough to oblige them. A total waste of time.

Quora user for 8 yrs.
Following several postings challenging conspiracy misinformation, lies, and deceitful postings concerning hurricane Helene and FEMA response, my account was suddenly banned.
No notice nor warnings from Quora of any misconduct. Account simply banned and closed.

This platform seemingly thrives now in this mode of operations.
Sad, it used to be quite an appealing platform

QUORA HAS BECOME A SITE THAT ALLOWS RACISM, LIBEL, SLANDER. THEY ALLOW THESE POSTS W/O A CARE IN THE WORLD.

When I first joined Quora roughly 7-8 years ago I found several very interesting and well-written threads on physics and computer science. Starting about 2 years ago however Quora seemed to be taken-over by posters with no interest in the sciences but rather trolls with ideological or political axes to grind or people claiming to have astronomically high IQs. Apparently these "geniuses" didn't get Stephen Hawking's memo stating that "People who boast about their IQ are losers". Also on the increase is a fascination bordering on obsession with all things Third Reich. Yes, WWII is a historical fact and painful lessons must be recorded BUT I don't need to see threads about Nazi bordellos complete with salacious photos! In any event I resigned my Quora account.

I ended up on one of their pages didn't give them my email address however emails started arriving so I asked for these emails to cease however this morning I get another unsubstantiated email of rubbish

It should really be a 0 but unfortunately not such a choice. The questions asked are often very stupid and the answers from people who don't know any better even worse !

Banned for answering many of the same questions that required the same answer. So I did cut and paste to save time. So now we are considered spammers for helping people who are in desperate need of help. We don't get any money or benefits for doing this work for God.

I would say this is single-handedly the very worst website on the internet. Nothing else to it. Just extremely pretentious community and useless perverse and ultra right wing questions and answers.

I had never heard of Quora Digest until a little while ago when I started getting daily emails from them to my inbox.
I mentioned getting their email to my husband who said he received daily email from them for weeks/months.
I delete their emails every day and will not ever open one.
What I would like to know is where they got my email address, and when will they stop emailing me!

Quora is filled with advertising garbage.
Their content is full of fabricated stories and links to non related items. an example is a half told story with catchy situations, then a "read more". click on read more will jump to total unrelated web.

Too nosy. Just followed the link from google search, and it didn’t let me read until I was registered. Then it took me time to delete the account. They require information as if they are passport control service on the state border.

I lost money in a money scam through crypto. I tried to recover the money and Olivia Simmons said she could help me and scammed me out of more money. She had a passport that she shared and an ID from the business so it seemed legitimate. But she just kept asking for more and more money. I never recovered my original loss

The company she allegedly works for is surplus apex capital. I will be writing a negative reviewing on them as well. Do not be fooled by the savy talk and the fake attention to your needs.

I tried to log in with my google account, couldn’t get through and suddenly i get a notification that my account has been banned. I wrote an appeal but it was rejected and I was stamped as a spammer. What a joke while I even never posted there, just tried to log in because otherwise I couldn’t read the threads.

i can just scroll on quora and see a picture of someones baby and I look at the comments and ugly ass grown men would say dirty things about the baby and then some profiles you click on shows a picture of some mans private parts