I see a simple question being asked that has a one word answer, and ALL the answers are 4+ paragraphs long. Direct answers are "hidden" and you have to click a button to see them.
>>1 Quora failed because too many women and homosexual Arab men are answering questions.
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Anonymous2017-01-03 9:59
it's a culture thing:
on yahoo answers, everyone is an idiot so they just post wrong answers.
on stack exchange, people who ask questions want simple answers but most answerers are pedants so you'll get one simple (but potentially wrong) answer that will be buried under mostly useless theory posts.
on quora, everyone is a pseudo-intellectual so they'll post long-winded essays that manage to use a lot of word but say nothing. the point is not to answer questions, it's to promote yourself as an intelligent, well-read and oh so enlightened person. you're creating a brand there, and for some reason everyone wants to be the same brand (the ideal they aspire to is a minority San Francisco progressive tech startup apper who cares deeply about social issues)
on /prog/, it's all shitposting and religious wars about programming languages.
>>4 This is actually the same issue that Kimmo Alm tried to solve. His vision was an anonymous discussion board where people would politely ask, discuss, and answer questions. Anonymity being the key to preventing women and attention-whoring men from accessing the site and polluting discussion with virtue signaling and brand-building. Unfortunately, his genius was too far ahead of its time and the project could not avoid succumbing to trolls and illegal clones that added namefag abilities. When he abandoned the project was the precise moment we knew the grand experiment of the internet had failed.