Quora can be very very good about attracting high quality articles on niche, intellectual topics. For example, I love historical linguistics, and every evening as I wind down for bed, I read Quora. Because I only read about historical linguistics or about language in general, Quora recommends the most amazing articles to me. Trained linguists not only answer questions with long, detailed, well-cited articles, many of them are also delightfully entertaining, better than a lot of pop science writers in mainstream publishing.

But Quora is also filled with crap. Finding articles worth reading when you go outside your niche can be a real crap shoot, pardon the pun.

And it’s probably worth noting that most of these amazing historical linguistics writers I’ve been following for years on Quora don’t make a dime.