This describes so much of the content on the web nowadays and it’s just exhausting.

I thought I was the weird one with my ultra-succinct communication but I now know the endless walls of text reflect the corrupting effect of needing to please search engines.

The sky is blue. Why is the sky blue? Philosophers have wondered for millennia about the hue of the firmament. Some say that…

Luckily we have GPT-3 now...

It's actually more useful than that. Even for queries with objective, straightforward answers, if I get a search result with a Wikipedia article and a quora answer I almost always go with quora. The Wikipedia result is an article written by a faceless group of people and there's no way for me to gauge the quality other than included references (which are very hit and miss on a good number of articles). The quora result is a variety of answers from a bunch of people with real names attached (in most cases). I can pick which answer I think feels more authoritative or detailed, or mix and match answers. I think having a real name behind the answer and each answer not just being a mishmash of contributions from anonymous sources results in higher quality answers I can trust (or at least make a decision about what level of trust I want to have in the answer which is very helpful when you're getting answers from the internet). Also having a bunch of answers to compare and contrast instead of just one definitive answer actually helps

Interesting.

    site:quora.com OR site:stackoverflow.com search query

results in mostly one or the other winning on Google. However, they are the only ones who show up in the results.

Quora has much more staying power than Clubhouse, which was a novelty even in its honeymoon period.