They are subsets (Unicode block) of the Unicode repertoire of characters:
Since Quora Shall Not have an API, they don’t want you doing cool things based off content. (They must be the only social media company in the Valley not to. Oh, I forget. They’re not social media.)
There were many data visualisation in the elder days: Oliver Emberton did a bunch of stuff, as did Stormy Shippy. Long since disabled. The best there is around now is whatever can scrape your profile page, which is down to:
Note that they visualise the post count on topics on your profiles. If you aren’t a MVW in a topic and haven’t indicated that you know about that topic, the topic will be missing from your profile, and hence your list. Going through your answers and identifying other topics is a good thing to do…
… except that with all API attempts disabled, you can’t do that. The best you can do (as I did recently) is download all your answers, eliminate the questions not tagged with a topic you know, and see what’s left. It’s suboptimal.
Oh yeah. Download your content. Once more, thank you Brian Bi: Brian Bi’s answer to When, and how, will I be able to download all of the Quora content I have produced, like the Facebook and Twitter feed export options?
Yes, sometimes it’s nonsense, and sometimes it’s the right thing to do, because merges are done by users. Some of whom are wise, some of whom are idjits, and some of whom are not idjits but don’t grok the Quora criteria for question distinctiveness. Someone has to arbitrate as to whether the merge is right or not, and whoever arbitrates, someone will be displeased.
The present dispensation, we are told, is that there is human internal Quora review of all merges. That to me is as good as can be reasonably expected.
Joachim Pense is right that it’s neither emergent nor inherent, but selected for by moderation.
However, the extent of humourlessness really varies by topics. Topics inherently select for different balances of the factual and the anecdotal. Survey Question is awash with anecdote, and humour follows it naturally. Where the topic inherently allows for it, a community of practice can develop around prominent answerers, so that there can be emergent humorousness. But I’d argue it’s quarantined.
Some of those polymaths also try to inject levity into answers, so long as they are still providing relevant answers. I think a fair few of them succeed.
See also: Why is there very little humor on Quora?
–tōr is an agent suffix:
Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges (misscanned)
a. The primary suffixes τᾱ, τηρ, τορ, τρο, ευ, denoting the agent or doer of an action, are masculine.
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3. τορ (nom. -τωρ): ῥή-τωρ orator (ἐρέω shall say, ἐρ-, ῥε-), εἴ-ρη-κα have spoken, κτίσ-τωρ founder (κτίζω found, κτιδ-), σημάντωρ commander poet. (σημαίνω give a signal, σημαν-).
-τωρ and its Latin cognate -tor (e.g. gladita-tor, domina-tor, can-tor), is an Indo-European suffix.
“Good thing I’ve read Brian Bi’s answer to When, and how, will I be able to download all of the Quora content I have produced, like the Facebook and Twitter feed export options?.”
Followed closely by:
“I guess I should check out Reddit after all…”
Australia:
Depends on your budget. In order:
Yes, to Australians, Europe might as well be just one country.
6 countries, 6 weeks. Or, as we said to each other at the conclusion of it: “we’re too old for this shit.”
You can’t. Refer How can I see my Quora PeopleRank? PeopleRank values and the PeopleRank algorithm is not divulged, although there are good guesses about what it involves.
And given that Quora Stats has been broken for years, even if Quora did release people’s PeopleRank, you likely still wouldn’t be able to see it.
The community has been trying plenty to educate users:
How do I get started using Quora?
To the extent that Quora Inc has posted official answers on the Using Quora topic, Quora Inc has also been trying to educate users.
Hands up those of you that have never seen either.
What Quora is not doing effectively is steer new users to either of those resources (in fact, force feed them). You get an account, boom, you’re in, good luck. Because the UX orthodoxy is that sites should be self-evident, and all onboarding is a bad thing, apparently. (See also Vogon Constructor Fleet.)
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The answer details of What are the important things about Quora’s onboarding process?, written in 2010, say “I believe Quora’s on-boarding process to be the best in the industry.” I find that prospect terrifying…
Most metaphors, we’d like to assume, were new once. (Likely not all of them: cognitive metaphor is tied up with cognition.)
Some new metaphors, or figurative speech, or just plain collocations, become popular. Others do not.
Some of those popular collocations become so popular, they become entirely conventional and characteristic of a genre. And in most cultures, that’s actually a good thing. These are familiar, comforting signals. They are shortcuts to thinking, for the speaker and the reader both. They are not surprising or vivid or thought provoking, which they may well have been once; but that’s ok.
However there are genres, and more importantly cultures, in which ongoing vividness and punchiness are valued more than familiarity and conventionality. Those are the genres and cultures that decry cliches. And when a particular expression becomes conventional and familiar, they value seeking out other expressions, that are not yet conventional and familiar.
Remember: most cliches started out as novel.
Why are some words clichéd? Because in those genres, they have become the victims of their own success.