For all round grace, humanity, and empathy, more than I will ever have, but enough that I can aspire to: the two angels on my shoulder.
And the other two angels on my shoulder:
And the other other two angels on my shoulder:
This is a target-rich environment for angels.
All I can say is, I’m not seeing it my side:
There’s a trough a week ago (as of this writing), but not currently.
Of course, if there is a glitch in stats, it could easily hit just random people…
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-g…
La Gigi: Haha! You make such a cute American gangstah.
Me: I did used to have a violin. Which means I did used to have a violin case…
La Gigi: It’s a CELLO case! How are you gonna fit a tommy gun in a violin case?
Nick: Ah. Wellp, that would explain a lot. 🙂
La Gigi: I see a comedy bit. A newbie gangster carrying around a weenie violin case and all the others are carrying cello cases. The newbie pulls out a water pistol.
Nick: You mean like this?
Reportedly, joke credentials are now being reported as unhelpful—a functionality was always in place, but now comes with a big yellow alert sign in your credentials list.
The fact that credentials are being policed more stringently is consistent with Quora adopting credentialism in its UX, over the looser and less regimented bios.
So, one would think:
Except, David Friedman’s answer to Why did Quora suddenly get so picky on credentials? reports:
As best I can tell, there seems to be some bug where certain users are being told that their credentials are being tagged as unhelpful.
At least, this is what I was told by one of Quora’s employees.
Which brings us back to:
In response to Nick Nicholas’ answer to Who is a Quoran that you look up to?
https://www.quora.com/Who-is-a-Q…
Definitely full of angels:
Or butterfly men, I guess, some of us don’t have your drawing skillz.
Nick Nicholas:
I think we settled as far back as Arius, McKayla, that the Son of Man was more than an angel.
Unless that’s meant to be me. Which it can’t be, I’m much too fallen, and much too dark-haired. (Well, grey-haired nowadays.) But I’m grinning none the less.
McKayla:
Hahah I only have 10 colors, none of which are grey, so you’re stuck with brown hair.
Only while I’m walking the dog. And there’s usually lots of typos to fix afterwards.
Voice is usually (usually) faster than Swype. It’s no competition for typing, because of the inaccuracy, especially if your vocabulary is not quotidian. But yes, I have written several three-to-four paragraph answers with voice recognition, and they weren’t all that bad.
My home town until I was 8: not very. Possibly in ways I’m not conscious of, but obviously I can’t speak to those.
My hometown from 8 to 12: probably not so much as my home country did. At that age, I suspect one schoolyard was interchangeable with any other, and one promenade with another.
I have lived in Melbourne since 12. I think your teens are when your hometown starts to mould you. That’s when you become more aware of the humanscape beyond your immediate surrounds. I learnt to value the cultural premium that came with a critical mass of population. I appreciated the peace of mind that comes with a well ordered city. I came to value the layering of waves of settlement and city history. I became habituated to an urbane alternative to sterile Suburbia.
Melbourne has made me an intellectual. Melbourne has made me risk averse. Melbourne has made me cosmopolitan. Melbourne has made me introspective.
And yes, Melbourne has indeed made me pretentious.
I’m confronting this issue myself, because I want to get closer to Dunbar’s number. And I’m reluctant to implement the right answer, because I’m reluctant to unfollow anyone.
Now, that will clean up your follower list, but that won’t clean up your feed, because those users weren’t showing up in your feed to begin with.
The real answer is: look at the users active in your feed critically, and ask yourself if you care about seeing their stuff in your feed. That’s tough, but there’ll be some you won’t care about any more.
Good luck. I know I’ll need it…
Only through your Edits feed, which is tantamount to not accessing it at all. It’d certainly not be a feasible task to automate the download of your Edits feed further back than a few days, without triggering some scraper-banning bot or other; and you don’t have an index of content like you do with Your Content.
Even if you did download it, you’d still have to extract the comments, though that task would be easier than getting the full feed in the first place.
I don’t know why it was a priority for it to be eliminated, and I’ve disliked most of the recent barrage of UI changes. This one, I didn’t mind: I did not find most of the trending topics interesting to me, and while it’s good to see what people think of current affairs on Quora, it didn’t add much value to me to have it in the sidebar.
I am much more worried about this:
Changes to Trending Topics by Abhinav Sharma on Quora Product Updates
Going forward, we will continue to mark topics as trending, and this information will be used to surface them appropriately in the main feed.
Right. Because I really want the latest stupid-arse thing Trump says showing up in my feed. That’s why I’m on Quora instead of CNN. The good thing about trending being in the sidebar was, it was segregated from my feed.
This change allows us to have more flexibility in the ways we present trending topics throughout the product.
When Quora says “Flexibility” for its UX, reach for Bug? or Feature?