{"id":7008,"date":"2022-07-02T12:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T18:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/?p=7008"},"modified":"2022-07-04T13:13:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T19:13:16","slug":"quora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/experience\/quora\/","title":{"rendered":"#cancelQuora"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the constant flood of new &#8220;social media&#8221; sites, Quora adds itself to the list of sites you can&#8217;t trust. If you&#8217;ve never went there, consider yourself lucky. I&#8217;m currently trying to assess if any of the ETFs I hold have any stake in that dog. It&#8217;s destined to become a not-fond memory of the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the pandemic I got invited to participate on Quora. I was doing some coding on <a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/reddiamond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RedDiamond<\/a> and helping out on the family farm, so I thought, why not? The urge to finish writing one of the four books that I&#8217;m writing simply wasn&#8217;t within me. For that urge to really take hold I need to be working out of state and trapped in my corporate housing unit during non-work hours. You know, like being in Minnesota in the winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In the beginning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing you have to do is turn off all feeds. Quora will bury you with &#8220;new question spam.&#8221; You literally couldn&#8217;t get anything done. Once I trimmed it down so that only one little piece of Quora could send me questions or a digest, it wasn&#8217;t too bad. There were a few dozen old IT guys answering questions from noobs and Quora, at that time, favored long answers. We are talking the longer and more pictures, the better. Answers well over a thousand words were common and well received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The mission for Quora: is&nbsp;<strong>to share and grow the world&#8217;s knowledge<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Early on, it seemed like they were at least attempting to do that. At least in the corner I went into, talking about IT and IT careers, there was a bunch of us with 30+ years in IT giving career advice and answering technical questions in long form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Then Quora turned to shit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.productmanagementexercises.com\/8550\/what-are-the-top-3-metrics-you-would-track-for-quora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">did this<\/a>. They focused on a tiny aspect of the site. Then they tried to make money based on that. Oh, 2017 is the only year I could find <a href=\"https:\/\/craft.co\/quora\/metrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decent financial information for Quora<\/a>. This down and out dog is losing its ass with both hands. Whoever came up with a $2 billion valuation of that dog was imbibing chemicals not legal in any country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the first catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/quora-pays-for-questions.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/quora-pays-for-questions.png 700w, https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/quora-pays-for-questions-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>The source of shit questions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When they did that we got &#8220;How much can I make&#8221; 32,767 times per day. It appeared there was absolutely no duplicate checking going on. If someone changed one word they could get the same question in yet again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Open the Quora septic tank<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere along the line Quora completely abandoned its mission and started having &#8220;promoted questions and content.&#8221; I kid you not. They even have <a href=\"https:\/\/quoraadsupport.zendesk.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360020281151-Tracking-Promoted-Answers-Metrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">documentation on how to track your promoted questions and content<\/a>. You can&#8217;t make shit like this up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IT area I was hanging out in then began alternating between &#8220;How much can I make with insert-language-here?&#8221; to &#8220;What is the best boot camp for insert-something-here?&#8221; Yes, it appears the boot camp scam artists were &#8220;promoting their content&#8221; by having a few hundred people each day ask the same boot camp questions over and over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Enter the Editors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For the most part, prior to these stupid management decisions, things went well. You can imagine just how honked off the boot camp hawkers were getting the same response to a person from seasoned professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>There is no &#8220;best boot camp for&#8221; anything. You cannot learn enough by attending a single boot camp to actually do anything useful in IT, let alone get a good paying job. All you can learn in an N-day or K-week boot camp is the syntax of a particular language and a tiny bit about the primary IDE. That&#8217;s it. You cannot learn anything about the fundamentals of IT or actual problem solving. You aren&#8217;t paid to &#8220;code in&#8221; a particular language, you are paid to design a solution to a problem then code said solution. You are missing the &#8220;how to solve problems&#8221; part of your education. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Yes, someone with 15 years of COBOL\/FORTRAN\/insert-3GL-here who went to college for an actual degree in IT and learned the fundamentals can get a lot out of a boot camp. All they are looking to learn is the syntax and tools. They already Know how to solve problems. You, never been to school, can&#8217;t get anything useful out of one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So, that went over like a lead balloon with the scammers paying Quora. Without any real announcement they started adding &#8220;editors&#8221; from the lowest wage pool. There would be no notification your answer got changed. A thousand words got trimmed down to three sentences that had nothing to do with the question because the attention span of the incompetent couldn&#8217;t hang around for more than three sentences. I can&#8217;t tell you just how many times I saw them cut the actual answer out while leaving in some oatmeal pre-amble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">People who actually answered questions started leaving<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You betcha. People started leaving in large enough numbers for Quora to come out with &#8220;Make Money with Quora&#8221; for question answers. You had to sign up for some kind of payment service (which I didn&#8217;t) and you had to flag your answers as free or revenue generating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I gave this a try for three months after flagging some of my more popular answers and all new answers as revenue generating. By the end of the third month I had a &#8220;Congratulations your answers have been viewed by 14,000 this month.&#8221; The number was over 14,000, but I don&#8217;t remember what and don&#8217;t have a screen shot. Guess how much I earned over three months with boo-coo answers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$7.48. You had to have earnings of at least $10 before you got paid. #cancelQuora<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Quora is a hunk of shit to be avoided. Hopefully it will go under soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initial intent was good. 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