Quora's Folk ft. Milo Edwards
Added 2022-07-08 10:10:21 +0000 UTCOn this week's Bonus episode, Phoebe is joined by close personal friend of the show, Milo Edwards of Trashfuture and Masters of our Domain, to discuss the very specific kind of posting native to the website Quora. Quora is a questions-and-answers website a la Yahoo answers, but somehow more unhinged.
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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).
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Anyway, since you’ve done Quora, do you think you’ll ever cover StackExchange, AKA Quora with sliderules? IIRC there’s been a bit of drama in the past couple years around how StackExchange basically doesn’t answer questions anymore but instead yells at people for having the temerity to ask them, before the now-useless non-answer gets Google-bombed by StackExchange’s SEO. (GitHub posting is also quite something, considering the fact that everyone on there is at least ostensibly actually working, unlike LinkedIn, where they’re merely talking about how much work they allegedly do.)
Elsie Hupp
2022-07-11 00:43:32 +0000 UTCWas the the person who strongly believed in open source/ freedom of information that was driven to suicide, Aaron Schwartz? If so, the documentary about him, The Internet's Own Boy, is very good.
Toby
2022-07-10 21:11:19 +0000 UTCHe was also the co-inventor of the RSS feed language and the Markdown format. An immensely talented guy, and sorely missed
Cat Mara
2022-07-10 06:36:35 +0000 UTCYou have to take my suggestion, I'm Norwegian
A sudden absence of bees
2022-07-09 21:27:42 +0000 UTCPlease please do a Yank posting ep, or some sort of Yank posting vs Brit posting thing idk. Get the content mine guys on and have a rumble maybe
A sudden absence of bees
2022-07-09 21:27:17 +0000 UTCHoping and praying Milo gets a column. The world needs more observations like Baz Salo.
Bingus
2022-07-09 09:12:53 +0000 UTCI mean... Hard to tell without a picture, but that's his resume.
The MILF Formerly Known as Tzippi
2022-07-08 19:47:24 +0000 UTCI'm embarrassed to say I was a three time Quora Top Writer (2015, 2016, and 2017). I still have a Patagonia jacket and a messenger bag to commemorate around somewhere. I never went to the exclusive meetups (because at the time I lived in Florida and was extremely poor and the meetups were always in New York or LA), but there is one person who was a bit more well-known in the trans space than I that routinely was selected that I might have considered hooking up with? Maybe? But that's more "queers who know each other in a space together" stuff more than "eyes wide shut party" stuff lol. I have, to date, about 25k followers on Quora, and I do have some simps. They're... ... ... They sure are. The Top Writer's program is done. They had a writing contest program a while ago where question askers (questioneers?) could ask a question, this was typically a corporate thing) and put money up for the best answer. The *best* answer. THE BEST ANSWER. ***THE COMPANY WOULD PAY YOU FOR THE SUBJECTIVELY BEST ANSWER.*** Anyway, I won about $500 once for saying Starlink is a stupid as fuck idea, and oh hey, looks like I was right. But then I think they realized how bad that idea was and canned it pretty sharpish.
The MILF Formerly Known as Tzippi
2022-07-08 19:35:54 +0000 UTC(Lakitu killed Princess Di, though; don’t at me.)
Elsie Hupp
2022-07-08 17:49:31 +0000 UTCMy opinion on Meghan Markle is that she did a truly heroic thing by rescuing Prince Peach from Bowser and the other Koopas in the Mushroom Kingdom, but now I’d really like to never hear from either of them again thank you very much.
Elsie Hupp
2022-07-08 17:48:09 +0000 UTCIncidentally there’s a place in Australia called Magnetic Island, so named because James Cook’s compasses malfunctioned when he was in its vicinity, a phenomenon that no one since has been able to replicate because the Aboriginal Australians quickly fixed their secret magnetic field generator located under the island, thus saving the entire Southern Hemisphere from certain doom (though unfortunately not from the British).
Elsie Hupp
2022-07-08 17:40:21 +0000 UTCQuora user: “Why don’t people in Australia fall off the bottom of the Earth?” Physicist: “Because gravity pulls people on all sides of the globe towards the center.” Quora user: “But why does gravity pull people on all sides of the globe towards the center?” Physicist: “Uhhhhhhhhh…” . . . (Gravity is one of those things that we still don’t actually know why it does what it does, even though we can calculate its effects to a shocking degree of precision.)
Elsie Hupp
2022-07-08 17:34:52 +0000 UTCPhoebe: “There’s no proof the LinkedIn guys can see the insane-people guys, but we can see them, because we’re a different species altogether.” Milo: “We’re outsiders looking in. We’re in the middle of the panopticon.” Phoebe: “This is what Quora is like. Quora is like peering into a zoo.” Quora users: https://youtu.be/x2H7zcqjplc
Elsie Hupp
2022-07-08 17:15:08 +0000 UTC3/5 never pawget
Jordan Clementi
2022-07-08 17:14:31 +0000 UTCMilo naming a new trashfuture discord channel
brodie
2022-07-08 17:09:37 +0000 UTCThe guy who was hounded to suicide that Phoebe mentions at the 31-32 minute mark is Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit but also a progressive activist who tried to download the entire JSTOR (academic journals) archive to open-source them. He was a good lad.
Tess
2022-07-08 16:25:58 +0000 UTChttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Bartetzko is this..him?
leem
2022-07-08 16:14:15 +0000 UTC
