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Comment by mu53 | Hacker News Reader

Monopolization effects from social networks is so powerful. I really wish decentralization would take off again, but it's a vicious cycle.

Search incentives SEO hacking. SEO hacking causes searches engines to stick to weigh reputation scores more. Reputation scores favor large social media platforms that have strong moderation practices. Quora, reddit, and other platforms become more valuable than SEO hacked blog spam.

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This has to be one of these most useless sites on the Internet and it blows my mind how frequently the content from this site is exposed via Google search. Now that I think about it, I think I should probably just block it on my local DNS server.

I hate how easy it is to get confused about what content on the page is even related to the original question. I have to get into my “Quora mindset” where I’m constantly double-checking that I’m not reading the response to a different random question injected into the original page.

I gave up on Quora! I don't even bother looking at all anymore. If Google gave me the ability to block certain sites from my search results, this would be at the top of my list.

> If Google gave me the ability to block certain sites from my search results

uBlacklist?

Kagi does, and in any caee Kagi rarely shows Quora results

Above Pinterest even?!

> I hate how easy it is to get confused about what content on the page is even related to the original question.

At this point I don't think it's ignorance, it's malice: A deliberate dark-pattern to drive "engagement" by layering in unrelated crap.

Quora is often self-promotion now. The template I think of when replying to your comment is:

Great point you bring up on how useless <website> is. As the CEO of <random company>, this is a problem we have put a lot of effort into addressing. You may consider the following as a solution: …

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