Some questions posted on Quora are ‘answered’ by the questioner and there is no place for another answer. Quora, why are the commercials allowed?

Because such “commercials” are not inconsistent with Quora’s missions:

  • publicly: to increase the world’s knowledge
  • publicly, when the Founders let their mind wander: to serve as a cache/substitute for Google
  • speculatively: to serve as a testbed for from sweet, sweet AI

They’re not very sociable, I admit. Even though I’ve done it myself, and recently at that. But, after all—all together now:

Quora is a Q&A site, not a social site.

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