What turns some people off about Quora, that you like or don't mind?

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I found myself nodding along to many complaints while going, "What? I disagree," to others. Which common complaints perplex you?

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I've just scrapped my whole answer and rewrote it. So now all I've got to say is this.

I'm now getting 75 notifications a day, mostly from new answers to questions that I myself follow. How many of them do you think I want to read? To keep the Quora Content Quality from continually spiralling down, Quora desperately needs strong characters with distinct voices, and needs more knowledgeable people on the site.

I now have 2044 drafts which aren't getting posted, and I'm posting answers here much less, if not, never. I'm working on something new right now elsewhere, and I won't be posting it here.

Whose needs is Quora catering to? The time wasters or the contributors? The lurkers, or the posters? Recent changes on Quora suggest that traffic is down, and that contributions are down. But will it ever go back to its hayday glory?

Quora decided to remove the Flag feature, change the slogan of the site, and allow survey questions, so now they're a content farm, and have to deal with the consequences. Content creation is up, but participation is down, if that makes any sense. The removal of barriers in order to increase content, reduced participation.

Quora is now an advertising website, but instead of people advertising products and services, the people are advertising themselves. What happened to sharing for the sake of sharing? Quora desperately needs to decide whether it is a website for self-gratification or for knowledgeable contributions. They can't have it both ways. The knife has to be cut along the log cake, somewhere.

It's very easy to talk about Quora, about how it's the next Facebook and how it'll revolutionise Q&A and content distribution, but that's because you're already immersed on the site, having investing into it with your content. What if you never knew about the site? What if you just found out about Quora today, and decided to read the content, before you decided whether the site was for you or not?

If you had just found out about Quora last week, would you still be using the site today? If no, why not?

PS. The block feature needs to be removed.