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RE: Quora Onboarding Initiative | Question Answered: Why should I create on Steem?
I got off Quora a year ago or more, can't recall exactly when but that place is a quagmire of verbal diarrhea and obnoxious echo chambers... in my opinion. From what I gathered it is a great place for interest groups to muscle their way around, and for bots to ask the same stupid question over and over to saturate the narrative in a particular area of discussion. Hope your initiative to get people from there to here is successful, Quora is the epitome of what makes social media unhealthy.
I created my Quora account in 2014, I think. I've written the vast bulk of my answers after Dan started the Quora Onboarding Initiative about three months ago. Most of my answers have been Steem-related and part of this initiative but I've written on other topics and in my own native tongue as well.
I haven't found the things you mention too disturbing but that may be because I haven't got much experience being on Quora. But I there seem to be a lot of people interested in writing a lot of interesting content. The topics you and I have experience of may be different enough for the problems with them to be different.
What I've found strange about Steem is that so many people spend time whining here. Almost anyone can earn something here and most earn much more than they ever could on any other platform. We're at a stage when, if everything goes well, STEEM could spike and most of us here could end up earning really well.
I don't find Quora the worst of all social media by any stretch of the imagination, at least in my experience. Facebook is far worse. The content is of lower quality, the ads assault you from every direction and a lot of the ads are for pure scams. When it comes to mainstream social media, Quora is pretty tolerable. I'd call some of the content surprisingly good. It may have to do with the fact that the UI is not as offensive as that of Facebook as in having fewer bells and whistles, flashy ads and such, which seems to offer a good canvas for thoughtful answers. Yes, some people tend to be wordy but I've found many people who are that in a good way.