Is This A Bubble?

April 29, 2016 10:27 AM

A Poem About Sillicon Valley Made Up Of Quora Questions
posted by The Whelk (26 comments total)

That last line though.
posted by sparklemotion at 10:34 AM on April 29, 2016 [11 favorites]

This was a great post. And, like most of the questions on Quora, it makes me sad.
posted by Bella Donna at 10:37 AM on April 29, 2016 [17 favorites]

This is amazing.
posted by jnnla at 10:44 AM on April 29, 2016

Lovely.
posted by Lyme Drop at 10:46 AM on April 29, 2016

This is a great poem. Watch your back Keats.
posted by GuyZero at 10:48 AM on April 29, 2016

urge to kill....rising...
posted by Existential Dread at 10:53 AM on April 29, 2016

This is great.
posted by blahblahblah at 10:53 AM on April 29, 2016

That was great!
posted by aka burlap at 10:55 AM on April 29, 2016

*cryinglaughing* and immediately posting on facebook.
posted by CoffeeHikeNapWine at 11:01 AM on April 29, 2016

A++++, would read again.
posted by mistersquid at 11:01 AM on April 29, 2016 [1 favorite]

This sucks, ON OPPOSITE DAY. Because it is good.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 11:06 AM on April 29, 2016 [1 favorite]

God, that's an amazing thing.
posted by jacquilynne at 11:08 AM on April 29, 2016

I always assumed that Quora was tuning the emails it sent me based upon a few searches I made about 5 years ago when I was interviewing for a job with a Big Silicon Valley Company.

It turns out.... the whole site is like that? Jesus.
posted by schmod at 11:20 AM on April 29, 2016 [4 favorites]

Quora is the website for 17 year olds to post questions wondering if they may be TOO smart.
posted by The Whelk at 11:22 AM on April 29, 2016 [30 favorites]

Yeah, that's basically half my friends, right there.
posted by happyroach at 1:33 PM on April 29, 2016

Along similar lines:

comprised of one star yelp reviews of national parks, by alli simone defeo
posted by naju at 1:51 PM on April 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

Clicking through to an original question, one's first/top answer begins "this is an insane question, made even more insane by the fact that it's perceived as entirely reasonable..." Could apply to so many!
posted by salvia at 2:04 PM on April 29, 2016

Recently Quora helpfully emailed this to me: What would happen if someone ate a cancerous tumor?

Thanks, Quora! Not sure what I did to make your algorithms decide this is relevant to my life.
posted by naju at 2:25 PM on April 29, 2016

This is a thing of beauty.
posted by seyirci at 2:26 PM on April 29, 2016

Now do one with FPP titles!
posted by kyp at 3:15 PM on April 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

Fantastic.
posted by defenestration at 4:14 PM on April 29, 2016

As a Silicon Valley Tech Person, I feel that I can answer:

capitalism
patriarchy
no
personality

capitalism
live
yes
who cares

yes
no
startups
don't

why would anyone buy it
cleaning products
yes
potassium deficiency

no one cares
no
life is too short
yes

capitalism
all of them
everything
softer

offline
sometimes
capitalism
everything
posted by reventlov at 4:44 PM on April 29, 2016 [13 favorites]

I'll be forever grateful for Ask Metafilter.
posted by bleep at 5:56 PM on April 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

@reventlov An even better poem than the original ...
posted by nickzoic at 4:32 AM on April 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

The answers to the question about why tech billionaires marry "average-looking" women starts out so promising, and then so quickly descends into a dumpster fire of PUA/evo psych horror.
posted by lunasol at 11:42 AM on April 30, 2016

It's funny to remember what a stupid craphole Quora is anytime a question you post on a Stack Exchange site gets marked off-topic or whatever. It appears Quora no longer blocks Tor though, which sounds like progress.
posted by jeffburdges at 5:41 AM on May 1, 2016