2017–06–29, ter

Temporary Quit:

  • Ben Kelley
    • Statement: Personal Message (quoted with permission)

Hope you are well. I think I will be taking a break too. I’m not getting a whole lot of satisfaction out of Quora recently, I find some of the recent events quite frustrating. With a never ending lists of questions and a shadowy and opaque entity running things, I think I need a break. I will deactivate for at least a couple of weeks. See how I feel. Good luck my friend.

And good luck to you too, Ben.

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2017–06–28, bis

Account Reestablished:

I just had something weird happen to my Quora account. I think it was hacked in some way. I am not sure if I am back on Quora or not. Alms! Alms! Upvotes! Upvotes!

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2017–06–24

Quit (temporary):

After a lot of thinking, I’ve decided to not delete my account, mainly because I still want people to be able to benefit from my answers. However, while I may occasionally pop on to read and possibly, comment, I will not be writing on here in the short term.

If you are interested in my writing, feel free to scroll through my answers, and if it interests you, don’t hesitate to follow me since I may come back in a few months.

Until then, cheers!

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2017–06–23

Unbanned:

I just got an email from the Quora Moderation stating that my privileges were restored!!!

“Original ban was made in error; reverting.”

I still don’t understand what was that all about.

But I was in limbo.

I still believe that there is a room for improvement in Quora Moderation.

A person with full name and credentials should write an email, explain why the ban, editing, etc, and leave space and time for a question and answer session to resolve the issue.

I put quite lot of effort in Quora and I would really hate all of it to go away.

Thanks to you guys for all the comments. Cheers!

Oh! And a practical comment. It seems that all of my answers (some 600 of them) were automatically collapsed. I got it in notifications. I went from one answer to the another and it always said “collapsed” at the top. I tried to appeal, desperately searched where did I break some policy, etc. Anybody knows what happens in similar cases. Some of the answers are completely technical so there is no chance of any violation whatsoever!!!

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