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I have been a member of Quora for 12 years. When I first joined it was a decent website with integrity and rules it actually enforced. Now moderation is horrific and inconsistent. Rules are enforced arbitrarily, if at all.

The site is now completely overrun with catfish scammers and trolls who each have dozens of fake sock puppet accounts. When you report them and give evidence that it's a catfish scamming account, the moderators usually do nothing. Sometimes they might ban 4 or 5 of the fake accounts but not the other 6 or 7 that were also reported that also clearly belong to the same scammer! These have got to be the most inept moderators any website ever had! It's obvious that they simply DO NOT CARE that their site is now garbage.

But they recently put ME in Quora jail (blocked for 2 weeks) for notifying unsuspecting Quorans that they were in fact communicating with a catfish scammer, not a real person. The people I warned were grateful and sent me notes to say as much, but the moderators decided I should be punished for doing their job. Meanwhile, they let the catfish scammer continue preying on Quorans without interference, being completely indifferent to the fact that these are potential victims who are risking heartbreak and extreme financial loss.

They are awful. The automatic moderation keeps removing innocent, inoffensive answers to questions. The right of appeal constantly fails. You build up a good reputation on site then get banned from doing any comments, questions or answers. This happens to many people I know. It is out of control

Moderation is automated (with AI or similar). All the time, it happens that inoffensive comments, questions and/or answers get deleted or hidden. What´s more, the automatic moderation will bar a user from writing anything on the site after just two of these wrongful accusations. The appeal system on the site does not work and seems to not give any human response whatsoever. The site is next to useless and undemocratic, judgmental, biased, unfair.

I’m deeply disappointed with Quora. My account was suddenly banned without any explanation or warning. I hadn’t violated any community guidelines or posted anything inappropriate — yet I was locked out completely.

I tried to appeal multiple times, but every response I received was clearly a copy-paste template filled with vague terms like “violating our policy” without specifying what policy I supposedly broke. No transparency, no human interaction, no real help.

After doing some research on Reddit and other forums, I realized I’m far from alone. It turns out many users are getting banned for no reason, and Quora offers zero accountability. Looking at their Trustpilot page, it’s clear this is a widespread issue — and it’s getting worse.

Quora used to be a great platform, but now it feels like they don’t care about their users at all. If you value your time and effort, think twice before investing in Quora — they can take everything away without reason, and you’ll get no support.

Despite being sent the same questions on the same topics repeatedly, I was actually enjoying the site. My postings always generated good interest and sparked interactions amongst those who commented on it. Everything was going well. Curiously, trolls began to suddenly show up one day, accusing me of making up my experiences. I ignored/deleted most negative comments but finally responded sarcastically to two or three of them.
Shortly after, I get an email from Quora informing me that I've been banned from the site for posting Spam, harassment/bullying and hate speech. They gave me a chance to appeal which I did because I'd never been guilty of doing anything they were banning me for. They came back a week later with the same decision. I wasn't going to beg to be reinstated so I left it alone.
Here's what I believe. I think those sudden troll comments actually came from within. Maybe they do this to liven things up over there or somebody really didn't believe my experiences (in that case, I was being penalized for living an interesting life). They didn't like my response - or lack of response. Therefore, someone decided to label me a spammer or harasser. Very dodgy or, at the least, incompetent decision making.

EDIT: When I made this review I hadn't yet read any of the others. Wow! People getting banned unfairly seems to be a way of life at Quora. Relieved to see my experience isn't so unusual. Still a real shame though.

it's run by total morons, it's set up so you keep getting the same questions thrown at you and these are often moronic or simply trolling, but if you keep answering them you'll get deleted due to your answers always being the same..... you can't link to the outside or you'll get in trouble for spamming..... it's becoming very similar to Facebook because you have to be careful what you talk about as well.... there's no real freedom of speech.
it is also plagued by romance scammers and other scammers too so you have to be very careful of your security settings and Quora are very slow to block them....... if at all !!!!!

Do not be lured into signing up for this scammer I believe that it is a DATA HARVESTER. I had never even heard of it or done a search for it. Somehow whilst on another companies website I found that I was required to select a link that took me to this company. I innocently clicked on it and found that I was required to create an account or sign in with a Google account. Thinking that it was related to the original site that I was on, I signed in with my Google account. Within hours I started receiving lots of emails from them. When I tried to stop them by using the delete account option I was forced to create a password to proceed. I did this and I was then sent an email link to create a new password. I did this and then had to confirm that I was not a Robot. Having done all of this I then tried to access the site to delete the account. It would not accept the password that I had just created. I tried numerous times over many hours following their instructions and using many new passwords each time confirming that I was not a Robot but it still would not give me access to delete my account. This site is just one of many that appears to be only interested in acquiring your personal data by illegitimate ways. Beware!!!

When people can delete replies with absolutely no justification ideas can go unchallenged and uncriticized. No idea is above criticism if people are looking for correct answers or as close to the truth as possible they deserve to have every view present and more importantly those views need to be able to be pushed and tested so the weak unfounded ones can be shown for what they are not how the "answerer" wants them to be seen. Where opposition can be censored Truth cannot be found.

For no apparent reason my account has been banned. I had no notice, no right to appeal, no reason given. Reading others experience this does not appear uncommon

Congress must take action to enact laws in order to protect consumers against rogue online platforms that attract users with under false premises and the promise of fair and equitable treatment, uses users content to generate revenue, and then for whatever reason, ban users at will (maybe due to pressure from certain organizations, like the NAR). Tort and contract laws may apply for such cases, and specific legislation is more than overdue.

The idea that those services are free is a non-starter, given that Quora uses users content and user profile information to generate revenue; in other ways, users are the product.

When you sign a contract for a service, there are prerequisites and parameters within the law. For instance, if one signs a lease for an apartment, the landlord can not simply decide to kick you out of the apartment whenever he or she wants and for whatever reason he or she comes up with: the reasons and violation must be abundantly clear and there must legal recourse and legal paths to redress the situation.

Quora is a rogue company controlled by nasty ideologues and special interest groups.

Such companies must not have free reign, there must be commonsensical laws, rules and regulation that would offer a modicum of protection to users; and there must be an easy path for users to file complains or take legal action against such rogue online platforms.

This site is run by idiots.

After years of using the forum (both reading and contributing) my account was banned for 'breaking advertising policy'. No warning, explanation or evidence given, and nor have they ever sent me a copy of their policy. Nor, either, have I ever advertised on there.

Their loss.

the worst of the worst... Site where you'll get banned for your opinion

Firstly, the "Double Posting" Issue Quora claim. Double posting usually means submitting the same or very similar content multiple times. Sometimes this did happens by accident, especially when the site is confusing, and when I was unsure whether my post went through. Quora ’s interface led to accidental double posts, that’s a usability issue, and not a violation done on purpose.

This is an fraudulent, speculation excuse Quora use because they could not find anything I did wrong and to keep from paying me. They are false advertising, using users after they reach a certain status then banding them. At the same time talking about they are helping people.

Seconly, clarifying the “Free” vs. “$$” Posts
Not Monetized: I clearly state my posts were under the “free” category, not for monetary gain. This is a strong point in my defense and proves quora making up false accusations of me.

Thirdly, I have No Intent to Game the System: I believe you get what you got coming to you. And it is the other way around. Quora is the one taking advantage of user. I took a break after answering 7000 questions over time and post contents from my other site. So this is not against any reasonable policy.

I Appeal My Quora Case To The People Part(2)

I believe Quora use a pattern where they unfairly bans active contributors to avoid paying them. Why even add a payment option on the platform if you banned users for generating crumbs? We don't control the platform you do Quora. I was a member for years, never generated a dime after answering thousand of questions. It was not a big deal, then I was banned out of the blue.... after finally generating crumbs. I want to warn others about the misleading practices and lack of transparency. If you’re considering joining Quora’s Partner Program, be aware of these risks. I'm giving my honest review to help future users make informed choices. Move to better platforms: Like Trustpilot :*) or Try Medium, Vocal Media, Substack, or your own blog, where you can have more control and transparency.

They will ban anyone who is pro trump or a conservative christian,it is a bluesky site with all the leftist hivemind on it and does not believe in free speech unless it confirms thier beliefs.I would avoid doing any kind of business with this site if you want to debate any one thats not possible there you will get banned.They push that men are women and trans are superior to anyone else.

Dangerous and intolerant. The users on this website are paid to just harass and mock anyone who rationalizes their comments. Their only defense, the white liberal, Is race. Bigots. The Barack Obama Jr clan. That would make Malcolm X look like Mr Rogers. Just ridiculous what politics is doing to people.

Full of the usual sort of angry people who will respond to comments with personal insults at the drop of a hat if they differ with your views. They have a behavior policy etc but mods won't enforce it.

Once again it is the censor ship BS. I was responding to a X Rated question in the X Rated Section and these jerks out of the blue started their crap again.

I got banned for apparently spamming when I asked them about this they couldn't tell me what I was supposed to have done and of course they couldn't tell me because I only read on it I never actually answered questions. Obviously I'm done with the site as many others team to have I didn't understand why I got that email well in my inbox something I haven't done anything wrong I wasn't expecting it but that's fine there are plenty of other places to read information about stuff so yeah don't bother joining this site.

Quora is the most desperate of all social media. They do what Reddit doesn’t do or instagraham or Facebook or even TikTok. The loser o portal spams your email Bo with subjects you don’t want to see. I’ve said v blocked emails coming from the space. Quora is your system so stupid it can’t process block emails for Quora suggested spaces. If it is it surely is the most stupid social media portal out there. I will take action if Get another of your completely useless mails

zero stars for quora.com is VERY VERY STRANGE; THEY BANNED ME FROM USING THEIR WEBSITE BECAUSE THEY CLAIM I AM USING OR ADDING SPAM, THE EMAIL DOES NOT CONFIRM.... REALLY? I DON"T KNOW HOW TO DO THAT; SO IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO ME. SO I GUESS THEY JUST RANDOMLY BAN PEOPLE JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN. THE FREAKS. I DO NOT OWN A BUSINESS; THERE FOR I AM NOT ADDING or SUPPORTING A BUSINESS URL AS THEIR EMAIL CLAIMS.
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