The most important way to grow on Quora is to first learn Quora’s policies and guidelines in depth. Quora has published detailed guidelines so that Quora users can use the platform to make best out of it. Let’s learn the major policies:
Core Policies
Quora’s Acceptable Use Policy: The main intent of this policy is to make Quora a place that enables users to share and spread the right knowledge. It includes following key rules - Be Nice, Be Respectful, Respect the rights of others, respect the Quora platform.
Quora’s Be Nice, Be Respectful Policy (BNBR): This is one of the most important policies of Quora. The key intent here is that people consider other people on Quora with civility, respect and consideration. It further encompasses following rules - no hate speech, no glorifying or advocating violence, no harassments, or bullying, participating constructively in comment threads, criticism and diversity of opinions. In summary, you should be nice and respectful to other while asking questions or writing an answer or a comment.
Quora’s Real Name Policy: On Quora it’s very important to use your real name for your personal account. It should also follow formatting guidelines. Sometime if Quora finds that you are not using a genuine and authentic name of yours, they may restrict or ban your account.
Questions Policies
Policies and Guidelines for posting questions on Quora: The goal for each question page is that it should show up as the best source of information to that question. Here are the main rules under this policy:
Questions should be sincere attempts to obtain reusable information - not just to spam or gain advantage out of platform.
Questions should be clearly written - they should not mislead or confuse people.
Questions should comply with Quora site policies
Questions are viewed as community property
Questions sources should be used to provide context for a question
Topics should be used to help people who may be interested in the question - The tagged topics should be correctly relevant to the question.
Questions are stronger if they are phrased neutrally, ask for information and ask why
Questions of many types are encouraged
Quora policy on question deletion: After adding a question the original poster of the question has a grace period during which he or she is permitted to delete the question; this grace period ends when a certain level of activity on the page has occurred.
Content Policies
Main policies and guidelines for writing answers on Quora: Quora’s intent for each question page is to become the best useful resource for people with the same or relevant questions. Answers should make the page more helpful and useful for users who are interested in the related questions. Self-promotion is allowed only as part of a genuine, helpful and clear answer to the question. Answer must satisfy with site policy. Answers that do not comply with Quora’s policies may be collapsed or deleted
Quora’s answer collapse policy: The key principle underlying Quora’s policy on collapsing is that people should make a page more helpful for people who are interested in the question. Given this principle, Quora may collapse answers for the following reasons:
Doesn’t answer the question appropriately
It is a joke
It violates Quora’s image or video policy
Should be a comment
Needs to be in English or the permitted local language
Relevant affiliations need to be disclosed
Quora’s policy on adding images and videos: Adult images or videos are only allowed on pages involving adult topics and which have been tagged with the appropriate adult topics. Images and videos of extreme graphic violence are only allowed in answers if they are clearly helpful and necessary to the answer..
Quora’s policy on disclosing affiliations in answers: A user should disclose any relevant affiliations explicitly in an answer or in the topic bio that appears with the answer.
Moderation Policies
How does Quora moderation make decisions about edit-blocks and bans: Some reasons why admins may edit-block or ban someone:
They vandalize content on the site.
They engage in one or more actions which violate the core policies
They post a significant number of questions, answers or comments that aren’t helpful
They repeatedly violate Quora policies or does not change their behavior even after receiving a content warning.
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