James Finn
1 min readJul 17, 2024

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Yes! I still read Quora most days, using it to pursue my amateur passions like linguistics and ancient history. Because I have been using Quora for many years, I know which experts to look for, and I appreciate a lot of stimulating academic interchange in comments under excellent answers.

However, most of the stuff I get in my daily emailed Quora Digest is not excellent in any sense of the word.

I have to scroll down my feed to find excellent, most of the time, and sometimes, I have to scroll for a very long time before finding anything worthwhile.

The answers I see more regularly are not answers by experts in any field, and often, they're quite similar in quality to what you might find in random Facebook posts or Twitter threads ... meaning not very interesting to somebody who has come to expect high quality on Quora.

I'm very sparing with upvotes, being careful to upvote only true experts who produced detailed, complex, truly interesting answers. I also try to comment briefly and encouragingly to answers like that.

But that hasn't helped the poor nature of my feed or my daily email digest. The Quora algorithm doesn't seem to be able to understand what I'm telling it with my engagement, in terms of what I'd like to see more of.

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James Finn
James Finn

Written by James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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