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2020: Quora the Land of Everything Nice
Quora is a place for sharing, with one caveat. Anything you share that might be the slightest bit controversial, will never be seen. Quora has an unlimited amount of content, being produced daily from its users. If any post is downvoted by any other user, it will quickly become lower ranking than other answers, no matter how popular/viral it may have been. You will likely never see anything politically incorrect on Quora. This is sad because it is not an environment for innovation or constructive debate. However, it does provide plenty of good answers sometimes.
Quora has gained steadily in popularity, but in the last year, the quality of new answers available has taken a downturn. Perhaps the popularity of the site brought with it the unwanted lowest common denominator. Despite this, it's still a very viable option in Q&A websites and forums.
This may be true of Google as well: Google reportedly manipulates search results to hide controversial subjects and favor big business, businessinsider.com
Why Are There So Many Stupid Questions and Answers on Quora
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-there-so-many-stupid-answers-on-Quora/answer/Anthony-Strain-4
With any social media platform, the larger its population, the more “shit” you have to dig through to find the “gold”.
Back in the day, Quora held a higher standard for good writing. They rewarded good writing and discouraged bad writing. If you were a good enough writer, you got some serious street cred here. Sadly, they have seemed to placed prioritization on revenue. Revenue is fine, but Quora is banking on getting their search results to the front page of Google so much that any volume is good volume now, and that includes bad writing.
Plus, Quora is rapidly growing. The more people who use this site, the more people who won’t really care about serious answers. All those answers to “WhAt ArE SoMe MeMeZ ThAt DeSeRvE 1,000,000,009 upBOATS??” are indicative of this. It’s Reddit-tier stuff.
The Crappy Question Program helps fuel this. $0.34 for a clickbait question is a magnet for bad practice, but this is Quora’s business model now. You don’t even get paid to write fantastic answers — only “fantastic” questions. There’s nothing we can do about it, which I think is incredibly sad.
2020: Facebook is its own Operating System
Disclaimer: I'm running a vintage laptop model from 2006
You have the most nimble user interface, when everything runs natively, closer to machine language.
Instead, you are running an operating system on your computer, and on top of that operating system, you are running a web browser, and on top of that, you are running a very heavy website named Facebook. Your computer slows to a crawl. Loading multiple tabs takes longer and longer.
Try using https://m.facebook.com, the mobile version of facebook.
Or https://mbasic.facebook.com
It's less bling, less bloat. It renders more like a web page, rather than an operating system. Takes some getting used to, but once you memorize the steps, doing things in a different way, it's a lot quicker.
Andrew Herbert in the Pale Moon forum said: “m.facebook.com (with JS) or mbasic.facebook.com (without JS)”, where JS is JavaScript. Also, TheStar website said that messages can only be accessed via mbasic.
On the Pale Moon Browser, both sites render as mbasic, but on Chrome, m.facebook.com is a different design.
References:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13625713
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-different-versions-of-Facebook-Mobile
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=24243&p=188275
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23487
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