Quora's moderation apparently works as a dictatorship in which their moderators threaten to ban anyone who makes a statement they don't personally agree with. Only one time in my history of using this platform have I ever had a problem with anyone, and the one time it did happen someone left disparaging and insulting remarks on one of my comments within a post. I responded with "Better yet, where did you learn how to read?" And quora's response was to threaten to ban me over that? The thing is, In order to stop an argument before it ensued, I actually deleted the comment 2 seconds after it was made, deleted the other persons disparaging comments, and blocked them, as I felt it was a better choice. Then Quora's North Korean dictators came and started threatening me.
It seems we have no right to defend ourselves if others attack us, and apparently Quora's fascist dictators for moderators don't know how to mind their own business. This is supposed to be a Q&A site, and of course people aren't always going to see eye to eye, they're going to stress their arguments, of course they're going to disagree on things, but apparently Quora feels we have no right to our own personal opinions.
This platform violates every principal of freedom of speech and freedom of expression. If this platform plans to last they need to get rid of these mentally deranged moderators who're hell bent on treating people like crap.
Quora's "Be Nice, Be Respectful" policy is BS, as it doesn't appear these rules apply to them.Whatever you do, if one of the moderators personal friends makes insulting statements to you as what happened to me, don't respond, otherwise the fascists will come after you.
- Questions should be neutrally phrased. Try to avoid question phrasings that state an assumption, or are likely to be taken as trolling.
- Quora works best as a knowledge-building community when its users are respectful to one another. Insults, harassment, and personal attacks are not allowed on Quora.
- You must use your real, full name on Quora.
Yes. I just had a comment deleted with my appeal ignored (no explanation whatsoever for the original deletion or the appeal ignoring). The full text of the comment, the best I can remember it (it was very short) was “Voting for Trump because you are tired of the typical politician is like drinking cyanide because you are tired of soda.” It is completely innocuous, an opinion I have a right to express, and a valid point that people have the right to digest and learn from. Legitimate criticism through analogy, not BNBR violating in any way except to the thinnest skins. Would “Riding a motorcycle without a helmet is like having sex without a condom” get deleted?
Quora is moderated by overzealous juvenile snowflakes. For some reason, we as a species recognized the harm in letting government censor speech, but seem okay with corporations with 300 million users (size of the US population) doing the same. The arguments that “it’s their private property, they can do what they want” do not hold when a company gets so big they end up on the first page of almost any question-formatted Google search you can think of, due largely to intentional SEO. At that point, they are search engine spam, and do not have a right to funnel and monopolize Q&A attention and then pick and choose what voices and what ideas get to be heard. To give them that right is to give them the right to carve an enormous chunk of human communication space into their image, which goes against every free speech principle western civilization has rightfully upheld.
NOTE BEFORE ANYONE SAYS IT: By saying Quora violates free speech principles, I am not saying they violate the first amendment of the United States constitution. I know that the first amendment applies only to government (specifically to congress) and not to private businesses in the US. No need to point that out. I am simply saying that the core principle of not letting a small group of people decide what hundreds of millions of people can say to prevent too much power from conglomerating into the hands of too few hold whether the governing body is the head of a state or the head of a corporation
NOTE: The Supreme Court recently ruled that social media in the public square.
Quora may be facing lawsuits from civilized people and violence from Trumpers if they keep up their fascist criminal censorship. The fact is, lawless gangster corporations and the filthy rich punks who run them are the government. When the MAGAts figure that out, they'll forget about storming the US Capitol and begin storming corporate boardrooms.
