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Why is it that so many of the answers on Quora are written over the average person's head?

I get a lot of value out of the Quora community but why is it that so many answers tend to have an air of intense geek-tech snobbery?

I wish the folks on Quora would get out of this general community tendency to sound arrogant and know-it-ally. It detracts from the overall experience and, quite honestly, diminishes the value of the answers many times.

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Because the whole point of questions being organised with Topics is that people who are already knowledgeable in those topics can follow them and increase their existing knowledge about them.

Newbies don't really follow topics they don't know about, so it's only fair that topic followers will attract knowledgeable people with background knowledge. What this means is that when we see a new question or answer answered to a topic we're following (because we're already knowledgeable) we'll see no need to add further explanation in our questions for answers

Look at it this way

Look at my mini bio. ...... Do you find it practical for me to go into the Gardening, Comics and Fine Art categories; and expect to understand the top rated answers to questions in those topics?

That's what I thought. If you want a newbie's guide to all things on Earth, I'll refer you to h2g2. Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/alabaster/home