Category: Q & A

I've always held out for my mom to just kick the bucket. But despite a lifelong pack-and-a-fifth-a-day habit, she hangs on to this day. Also, it probably still wouldn't work… That little voice would always be there, doubting my every move.

Probably the only way that will actually work, is to face up to your parent(s), let them know about your fear, and try to work with them to modify both real and perceived expectations between you. In other words, to kill the fear of (or even the actual) disappointment, you need to communicate and manage expectations.

How does one overcome the fear of disappointing one's parents?

Totally feasible, though bound to have wavering accuracy – since there are so many different types of Quora user. I'm actually working on this at the moment as an experiment myself… I think the results will be best for those with a large number of answers, though large number of question will also be useful, given the tagging system.

If you wanted to really nail this, though, you'd need a pretty large test group and data corpus, to help tease of the subtleties of edits and voting and personality type.

Is it feasible to do a MBTI (or big 5) study of Quora users?

Good. Fucking. Question.

Why do people think that Quora questions can be adequately answered by giving their personal opinion combined with swearing?

• Quorans.
• Quorastes.
• Quorblers.
• Quorrelers.
• The Yishani Hivemind.
• Quoramblers.
• Quorappers.
• Quorves.
• The Quormunity.
• Those Bastards Who Keep Downvoting Me.

What should the Quora community be called?

This so perfectly describes the totality of my interaction with the site last week and the week before, it isn't even funny.

The real scary bit is how much all behaviors on Quora that show up in a feed are like Horoscopes – you can easily read your influence into just about anything someone else does on the site – so when they start asking questions totally unrelated to you, like

• "What are some good ways to relax after a rough day?",
• "how do I get creeps to stop email/txting me?", or
• "who is that guy in the window, is that you Dean?",

you just kinda start magically imprinting yourself everywhere, with all the associated effects of thinking yourself the subject of the question/answer/post/restraining order… Don't worry though, most of the time it isn't about you at all, and I'm sure all those legal notices were delivered here by mistake. I'll talk to the postal carrier tomorrow, and see what's up with that.

After you interact with someone you know on Quora, do you sometimes check back on their page to see what questions they asked based on your interaction?