Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says
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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
    123·
    4 months ago

    Yes let’s put a site that consists pretty much entirely of user-created content behind a paywall, what could possibly go wrong?

      • vegantomato@lemmy.worldBanned
        18·
        4 months ago

        Don’t lie. When 70% of your search results are Quora, you are going to click, you are going to encounter the login banner, you are going to rage, and you are going to click away.

        • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
          13·
          4 months ago

          Nope, those “answers” didn’t help even once, so now they’re filtered out of search results, and DNS banned. Quora does not appear on my devices.

          • RobotsLeftHand@lemmy.world
            6·
            4 months ago

            I’ve had some help from Quora, but overall I feel it wastes my time a lot more than not. And I’ve never had an instance where only Quora had the answer.

        • synicalx@lemm.eeEnglish
          8·
          4 months ago

          This why it pays to use a search engine that lets you blocklist sites

        • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
          7·
          4 months ago

          Even when the login banner doesn’t appear, lately all the answers are “Hm, it appears that you are trying to do [question title]. To do [question title], [basic bitch advice]. Hope this helps!” Style AI slop.
          When it isn’t the built-in AI helper doing it, it’s the users blatantly copying from different chatbots

      • icmpecho@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        was Quora ever good? I joined the internet in like 2019 and it’s always been garbage to me, did I miss its golden age?

        • d00ery@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 months ago

          Anecdotally, I remember using it for answers to things about probably business, government, and certain how-to’s. I also remember when the pop-over banner started covering up half the answers and that’s around the time I stopped.

          Here’s a post discussing quora from Dec 2018.

          all philosophical views aside, there are some really core issues that got me to stop using Quora and unfortunately the case to stop using it is made by the site itself:

          • The content quality has deteriorated significantly since the site’s inception. The content is far cheaper than before and far less interesting in very obvious ways.

          • Moderation systems have not done a good job of growing the site as a community. The site has lost the character that drew many people to it in the first place.

          • The machine learning models terribly over-fit to user signals, creating a frustrating experience.

          These 3 core issues with the site are what got me to gradually stop using it as someone who was initially an early adopter.

          https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644489

          • icmpecho@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            thank you for the explainer, this is very interesting. seems reddit is following along this path lol

        • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
          2·
          4 months ago

          Once upon a time, Quora was okay, before they started paying people to generate a bunch of yahoo answers questions / AI slop questions, and then fucked with the UI and made their site into a virtually unusable mess.