Chris B.

I was on Quora from about 2016. I am still there, but hardly ever post or answer questions. I just got fed up with the draconian and Kafkaesque moderation. I don't know if the moderators were bots or just real pompous Americans. Possibly both. I soon learned to block negative comments, but the trolls would get by that by posting on other people's answers to the same question. I was always polite, except for when one commenter questioned whether I could have been an inspector for both Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (UK government regulatory bodies). I am on Linkedin and post under my own name, and my CV is there for all to see. I was a special terms inspector and consultant for both institutions and was qualified in both child care and adults care, as most qualified social workers of my age would be, and in any case had a post graduate Diploma in Education as well as the standard post graduate Qualification in Social Work. The troll couldn't even spell Ofsted (he spelt it "Ofstead") but he riled me enough for me to call him out on it. Yes, I know that's a mistake with trolls, but there you are. The troll thought it amusing to report me to the moderators and my account was suspended and I couldn't even get back my thousands of answers. So they took the side of the troll, despite the troll having virtually no other posts and me having millions of upvotes. I took the view that the troll had done me a favour and stopped me wasting my time on Quora. When I started with Quora in 2016 they made a big thing of you having to be a genuine real person. Well, if you look at it now, it's all joke names and joke questions and joke answers, interspersed with malevolent trolls' comments. It's gone the way of Yahoo answers and Twitter - the same reason why Elon Musk pulled out of buying Twitter. It's a real shame as I used to enjoy the old Quora, but it has gone so far downhill it's now a waste of time. Glorified clickbait fodder.
I should add that there is virtually no testing of the validity or usefulness of the answers, so if it's something practical you want to know, look elsewhere, or at least be very careful of following some of the advice.