Quora's Downfall: How a Once-Thriving Q&A Site Lost Its Way by Sacrificing Quality for Traffic
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Quora was once a thriving Q&A community with high-quality, expert answers to curious questions. It distinguished itself from sites like Yahoo Answers with its accuracy and knowledge focus.
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Over time, Quora optimized for traffic over quality content. Moderation and community features were cut, opening the floodgates to spam, bots, and trolls.
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Quora struggled to monetize, leading investors to slash budgets for things like moderation teams. This exacerbated quality issues.
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The rise of AI chatbots brought a surge of poor quality, meaningless questions and answers to Quora. Loyal users are fleeing over AI training consent issues.
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Quora took the goodwill of its knowledgeable community and assumed it could automate it with no regard for the loss of quality and expertise. Its future may just be "robot questions, robot answers."