Jeremy Salkeld Profile picture
AskHistorians moderator. Qing enthusiast, Taiping fanatic.
Feb 8, 2022 41 tweets 17 min read
Something rotten in the state of Quora: A thread.If you've been browsing the history corner of Quora (and if so, I am so sorry), you may have been seeing answers by one Kevin Richardson, who at this stage has racked up some 1.3k answers and nearly 3k followers. (1/) This may sound like a lot, and some back-of-the-envelope maths confirms that it is. Kevin's account was created back in August 2018, which means that he's spent around 40 months on the platform, so on average he has written 32.5 answers a month, around one every day. (2/?)