It’s puzzling, OP. The default guess is, they are prominent writers in topics you are interested in.

They are prominent writers. But the topics don’t quite click.

All three happen to be programmers; but Pegah has only posted one answer on programming (and a curt one at that). And there’s nothing in your profile, OP, to indicate that you’re interested in programming.

Pegah has posted in Countries of the World, a topic you follow; and Iran, which she posts a lot about, is a Country of the World.

Jessica posts on Computer Science, which is… tech, and you do Electricity, which is… also tech. Joshua posts, among many other things, on Java, which is… tech, and on Science, which is… related to tech.

The recommended writer thing is a bit opaque; there’s a fair bit of just plain “this person is popular” in there. But they do seem to be popular writers that at least tangentially relate to your interests.

• Michael Masiello: what are your views on theodicy? (“Fuck you” is not an adequate answer)
• Am I also Shaytan?
• Am I also Kali?
• Am I also Angra Mainyu?
• Am I also the Demiurge?
• If God is Good is He also God? If God is God is He also Good?
• Should pronouns referring to Satan be capitalised?
• Why do I get to have all the good tunes?
• Is The Devil Went Down To Georgia really a good tune?
• Seriously?

• If I’m meant to have all the good tunes, what explains the albums of Anton LaVey?
• How can I revive Manichaeanism?
• How can I distance my brand from Alisteir Crowley’s?
• Are the Rolling Stones still writing good songs?
• How about those South Park guys?

Some stereotypes are to listed here: Aaron O’Connell’s answer to What are some cultural differences between the states of Australia?

Here’s mine:

• South Australians: more prim, more English. Boringest state capital city ever.
• New South Welshmen: enemies to the Victorians. Sydneysiders: Uncouth, arrogant.
• Victorians: enemies to the New South Welshmen. Melburnians: Stuck-up hipsters, arrogant.
• Tasmanians: inbred, farmers.
• Queenslanders: reactionary, Deep North, insane.
• Northern Territory: Crocodile Dundee.
• Western Australia: Nouveau riche miners. Don’t want to be in the same country as the rest of us.
• Australian Capital Territory: Public servants. Boringest national capital city ever.

When one of the earliest of the following happens:

• Quora goes broke
• I get banned
• I decide it takes up too much of my life
• It stops being fun

Probabilities and timeframes:

• Quora goes broke: 5 yrs, 70%
• I get banned: 2 yrs, 30% (no BNBRs yet, but the more popular you get, the likelier it gets)
• I decide it takes up too much of my life: 1 yr, 30%
• It stops being fun: 30 yrs, 5%

I answered a related, and since deleted question, and squirrelled the answer away here:

What are some aspects of famous Quorans that you dislike? (DELETED QUESTION) by Nick Nicholas on The Insurgency:

There are frequent recurring complaints about Tier #1 writers, those with follower counts in the tens or hundreds of thousands. They are why I make a point of not following them, and have limited interaction with them. They are not intrinsic personality flaws: they are partly Quora Celebrities being the victims of their success (overloaded in Quora traffic), and partly Quora Celebrities being the victims of being the kinds of personalities that end up being followed by hundreds of thousands.

Originally Answered:

How western is the republic of Greece and its locals?

Vote #1 Goru Yamato: Goru Yamato’s answer to Are Greeks truly “western”? How can they be western if they are orthodox? In that case, why aren’t the other orthodox countries considered western? Μπράβο σας, Γιαμάτο-σάμα!

I’ll just add that the struggle between the Hellenic and the Romaic, the Western and the Eastern orientation of Greece, was a defining cultural conflict within Greece. Greeks were not Westerners on the foundation of the Modern Greek State. Greeks had to be taught they are Westerners. A lot of Greek culture is still not Western. And Greeks throughout the 19th century, and well into the 20th, referred to Western Europeans as Franks. Which they wouldn’t do if they considered themselves Western Europeans.

The term Franks has fallen into disuse in the past generation or two. Not coincidentally, Greeks have embraced the project of the European Union: for all that they loathe Germany right now and are pushed against the wall, they really do want to stay in.

Greek culture has been in transition; but then, all cultures always are. More importantly though, Greeks themselves have come to embrace a Western identity. Which matters more.

… What are you doing here still? Vote #1 Goru Yamato: Goru Yamato’s answer to Are Greeks truly “western”? How can they be western if they are orthodox? In that case, why aren’t the other orthodox countries considered western?

There is a mental barrier for me, as a longtime resident of Melbourne: Melbourne ends at Mt Eliza. The mental barrier is to do with continuous buildings: there is a break in construction just south of Frankston, and there is empty land between Mt Eliza and Mornington (even if it is roughly 5 km).

The break in coverage of the metropolitan railway is another such construct: there is empty land between Dandenong and Pakenham (though not for long), but I think of Pakenham as part of Melbourne, because the train ends there.

There are people that commute into Melbourne CBD from the Mornington Peninsula, and for that matter from Geelong; but I would stick with the continuous building criterion. You are right that Melbourne has uncommon urban sprawl; and Sydney’s is worse. But I would think of Melbourne still as having a 50 km radius, not 100 km.

Habib, you’re on a roll here, aren’t you!

• Confucian virtues
• Industry
• Most people I hanged out with at high school. And undergrad.
• Spicy food
• East Asians, Not South Asians; I’m from Australia, not the UK
• East Asians, Not West Asians. Does anyone even say “West Asians”?
• East Asians, Not North Asians. People definitely don’t call Siberians North Asians.
• East Asians, Not Central Asians. Huh. It really is all about extended Sinosphere, isn’t it.
• South East Asians. Kinda sorta extended Sinosphere.
• My neighbours’ parents, who yell too loud in Chinese at their kid.
• My urbane Taiwanese psychologist friend, and his darling kids.
• Lots of cultures with venerable history, that I know too little about.

Ah, Michael, Michael, Michael…

I see this has become a random word association task, and that it has spawned Be honest: what do you think of when you hear “white people”?

OK. Let’s see where this takes me.

• African-Americans.
• Not Africans. Not Jamaicans. Not Australian Aboriginals. If I see a Somali in town (our second-last refugee intake in Australia), I don’t think “black people”, I think “damn those Somalis are tall.”
• Negative media portrayals
• Being scared while in the hood in Memphis (correlated)
• Civil rights struggle
• All that awesome music. All of it.
• I know too few black people, offline or on
• The ones I have met were all awesome
• Including here
• Should really get around to reading more Langston Hughes one day
• Maya Angelou does not seem to be a good poet
• I keep thinking I’m going to be subconsciously racist around blacks
• Maybe I am, but I don’t think I’ve allowed anything to get out 🙂
• I need to know a LOT more about Frederick Douglass

Well, that was my stream of consciousness…

Oh, zut, Habib le toubib:

• European-Americans
• Oh, and Europeans as well, I guess
• White Aussies? Ok, I’ll give you them too
• The bizarre American notion that white people are uncool and bland
• Hegemony
• Racial purity
• American demographics at war with each other
• White privilege
• Oppression Bingo
• Oppression
• Plantations
• One drop rules
• Melanin
• Social constructs
• “Surely you don’t mean me, O Lord?”