Quora
Shares rank 12 of 17 discussion forums by recommenders
Question-and-answer site where some people find expert answers from primary sources, but critics agree it is cluttered with ads, spam and low-quality answers.
Question-and-answer site where some people find expert answers from primary sources, but critics agree it is cluttered with ads, spam and low-quality answers.
36 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 30
- approval share
- 17%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Confusing, hard-to-use interface
“Quora has a similarly baffling UI. You're reading one thread trying to find a useful response and it mixes in random answers to other threads.”
Comment from 18 May 2026 in “Old Reddit Is Down” “Quora's thoroughly enshitified user interface is so spectacularly hard to use and intentionally, aggressively, darkly patterned.”
Comment from 28 Sep 2026 in “Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?” “Quora's UI is just trash. It's hard to realize the answer you are reading is not an answer to the question you have opened”
Comment from 18 May 2026 in “Old Reddit Is Down” Low-quality content, spam and ads
“Quora seems to be largely filled with adverts-posing-as-answers”
Comment from 4 Jan 2026 in “Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time” “it succumbed to low quality questions and answers”
Comment from 27 Sep 2026 in “If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?” “Quora was a slop/spam central even before genai”
Comment from 27 Jun 2026 in “Quora and mass AI poisoning: An organized crime AI spam ring” - Comment from 12 Aug 2026 in “Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content”
Engagement changes hurt answer quality
“Quora which over optimized the site for engagement growth but eventually became completely useless”
Comment from 29 Sep 2026 in “Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests” “Or the way Quora destroyed its own site in a quest to "improve questions".”
Comment from 27 May 2026 in “Stack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI” “Quora, sadly, is a good example of enshittification.”
Comment from 4 Jan 2026 in “Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time”
Other discussion forums people recommend
The four most recommended other discussion forums, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hacker News | 361 | 156 | 70% | 12 | 10 yrs17 owners | Approved |
| 261 | 988 | 21% | 13 | 14 yrs54 owners | — | |
| Lobsters | 105 | 31 | 77% | 12 | 10 yrs4 owners | Approved |
| Old Reddit | 60 | 47 | 56% | 12 | — | — |
| QuoraThis page | 6 | 30 | 17% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
32 of the 36 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Better layout, better moderation, better answers.”
“In my eyes they are in the same class of Facebook, uservoice, Pinterest, Quora etc.”
“Quora which over optimized the site for engagement growth but eventually became completely useless”
“Quora's thoroughly enshitified user interface is so spectacularly hard to use and intentionally, aggressively, darkly patterned.”
“at least not enshittified like Quora”
“Quora is prison for words.”
“It's very much a negative result when I'm looking for factual, verifiable information.”
“What a cool gift to the world!”
“it succumbed to low quality questions and answers”
“I loved to hear all the creative ways people came up with for how various things would end all life on the planet.”
“Quora has become a scam and CP-ridden cesspit”
“Quora isn’t as useful as Reddit”
“only have garbage articles and never really pay serious attention to them”
“extremely hostile to any newcomers”
“Without Quora we can't get masterpieces like this”
“Sites like Quora don't have good moderation”
“Check this quora for help”
“Quora was a slop/spam central even before genai”
“Or the way Quora destroyed its own site in a quest to "improve questions".”
“which tried-to/often-did hide the answers”
“You may substitute StackOverflow with Quora and your answer would not get less valid.”
“Quora's UI is just trash. It's hard to realize the answer you are reading is not an answer to the question you have opened”
“Quora has a similarly baffling UI. You're reading one thread trying to find a useful response and it mixes in random answers to other threads.”
“I don't think I have ever found a useful thing here”
“Ought to be against the rules but isn't”
“you would often see an answer provided by the primary (and only definitive) source for questions”
“Quora was just Yahoo Answers 2.0”
“Quora was just Yahoo Answers 2.0. And still is.”
“it's useless now because they didn't get it”
“None of those worked as programming tools.”
“Quora, sadly, is a good example of enshittification.”
“Quora seems to be largely filled with adverts-posing-as-answers”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.