Was it ever. As posted on Preemptive Real Name block? by Nick Nicholas on Bug? or Feature?,
A number of weirdnesses happened on 2017–03–28, including this [three Quora users turning into “Quora User”], a post disappearing from The Insurgency [Habib Fanny: BNBR violation against myself by Nick Nicholas on The Insurgency], and one of the people here’s answers ending up misattributed to another—before an outage that lasted hours. Seems like Quora’s database(s) were corrupted.
Look, this is probably a bug, and I’ve already reported it as such, but you never know.
Jess H Brewer is now Quora-User-2318, Jess H. Brewer. And Jeremy Glenesk is now Quora-User-2331, Jeremy Glenesk.
Nothing in their edit logs indicates they are being busted for a Real Name violation. In fact, Jess Brewer’s profile. has the blue tick of a verified user.
So this is a bug.
Surely.
EDIT: A number of weirdnesses happened on 2017–03–28, including this, a post disappearing from The Insurgency, and one of the people here’s answers ending up misattributed to another—before an outage that lasted hours. Seems like Quora’s database(s) were corrupted.
I should be recusing myself from this question, because in fact I have added dozens of symbols to Unicode, both as an employee of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, and as a tapped on the shoulder expert.
When Asmus Freytag tapped me on the shoulder, though, and said to me “We want to finalise Greek: Suggest all the characters we will ever need, so we can close the book on it”—there’s one decision I made that skipped a character, and that I feel a little bad about.
Unicode Greek includes three archaic characters that I proposed to them:
My compunction comes from what I did with the Pamphylian sampi. To quote Wikipedia:
A letter similar to Ionian sampi, but of unknown historical relation with it, existed in the highly deviant local dialect of Pamphylia in southern Asia Minor. It was shaped like
According to Brixhe it probably stood for the sounds /s/, /ss/, or /ps/. It is found in a few inscriptions in the cities of Aspendos and Perge as well as on local coins. For instance, an inscription from Perge dated to around 400 BC reads: ͶανάͲαι Πρειίαι Κλεμύτας Λϝαράμυ Ͷασιρϝο̄τας ἀνέθε̄κε (=”Vanassāi Preiiāi Klemutas Lwaramu Vasirwōtas anethēke”, “Klemutas the vasirwotas, son of Lwaramus, dedicated this to the Queen of Perge”). The same title “Queen of Perge”, the local title for the goddess Artemis, is found on coin legends: ͶανάͲας Πρειιας. As ͶανάͲα is known to be the local feminine form of the archaic Greek noun ἄναξ/ϝάναξ, i.e. (w)anax (“king”), it is believed that the ͳ letter stood for some type of sibilant reflecting Proto-Greek */ktj/.
I am, temperamentally, a lumper rather than a splitter. It was my decision that the Pamphylian letter was a variant of the archaic sampi, and should be treated as a glyph variant of that codepoint, rather than as an independent codepoint.
[math]huge{ͳ}[/math]
This means I have made life difficult for anyone working on Pamphylian. They will have to commission a different font, with the archaic sampi pointing the other way around. Or, rather more unlikely, commission a font with two variant glyphs for the archaic sampi, and use software that allows them to pick which variant to display. Or just shrug, and use the Ionian glyph instead of the Pamphylian glyph. (Like my Wikipedia cite does.)
Sorry guys.
Given the handiwork and calibre of bots we see around us on Quora every day, no question about *anything* should be automatically removed.
Besides. As we are told, all anonymous questions are now being scrutinised by moderation before being published.
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What Heather Jedrus said: Heather Jedrus’ answer to Why is my question about Pegah Esmaili’s ban being deleted instantly instead of posted?
Because they always delete questions asking why a specific user was banned. One reason is for the privacy of that person. There are probably other reasons as well.
Edited to add: There’s no way to get a really good answer to a question like that. Quora will never give any kind of official answer, the banned person isn’t able to answer, and everyone else is just guessing. I think answers to questions like that are at a high risk for BNBR violations and are likely to mostly be rumors and gossip.
All true. The instadelete is odd, but as Sierra Spaulding pointed out in comments (https://www.quora.com/Why-is-my-…), questions about bans are reported vigilantly by Quora users, and most of them are deleted quickly. Quick reporting is likelier.
See:
See also:
I have, after a lot of hesitation, started posting users’ own statements as to their bans on Necrologue. BNBR still applies there, as does a ban on speculation. Users’ own statements, I believe, are exempt from that.
*I* believe.
The word “vacuum” comes from it.
To be clear, the Latin vacuum is likely a Calque of kenon. Classical Greek κενόν, pronounced [kenón], with a high pitch accent on the final syllable.
No question, Michael Masiello. Formerly a literature Professor, and still a teacher right here on Quora. Give him a decent (and not too broad) A2A; it’s what he’s been missing.
Do not, on the other hand, ask him a homework question. Just don’t.
Read the fine print of the caption in the image of what Wikipedia would look like in Mongolian script, at Mongolian script – Wikipedia.
Mongolian Wikipedia preview. A representation of what mn.wiki would look like if Mongolian script support was properly implemented. Mn.wiki already exists, but support has not been implemented. Not all text is “real Mongolian” — only the actual text of the article, and the name thereof.
Vertical scripts are not well supported on computers. Until they are, abandoning Cyrillic would be suicidal for Mongolia. Conversely, of course, if they don’t abandon Cyrillic, there is little incentive for anyone to improve vertical script support.
There are cases where national governments have lobbied Silicon Valley to improve their scripts support. I wish I remember which Asian country it was, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Mongolia.
2017–03–27 by Nick Nicholas on Necrologue
Byun’s own understanding, as relayed via Emlyn Shen:
… I was notified by Quora mods via email that I was banned for possessing multiple accounts on Quora.
This is a completely false charge. I’ve always been a law-abiding Quoran. I never violated BNBR policies or any other Quoran community guidelines worthy of a ban. I take Quora’s policies very seriously. And I never had more than 1 account on Quora.
There is another Quoran account under a similar name: Baekjin Byun. What are the odds that our names are nearly identical, if this is the reason why Quoran mods charged me?
Very frankly, Quora is an amazing community. The concept is simply fantastic. Free knowledge to share with the world? Genius. Also very frankly, I am very frustrated with Quoran mods. As great As they are, they make many mistakes in “modding”. I was initially edit blocked for supposedly violating “fake-name” policy, for which I made a successful appeal. And now this issue.
From what I understand from her comment, Byun is appealing.
Jordan Yates has just posted On TWs and 20K by Jordan Yates on Jordan Yates’s Blog. With the laudable conclusion
I’m not here to be a Top Writer or to get followers. I just want to write.
This is true. The quill and the followers are gravy.
Though I’ve written stuff in a vacuum for years: my academic papers, with no audience and no recognition. And that’s why I’m not writing academic papers any more.
Anyway. I’m not writing about the quill here, I’ve said too much already. But just as Jordan has just hit 20K followers with no quill, I have just hit 2K followers, with no quill.
To celebrate me (not that many will see this): I don’t track followers any more, too many of you for it to be feasible. Anyone reading this that I haven’t interacted with already: why are you following me? And what would like to see more or less of?