Quora Banned Me For Saying The Earth Isn’t Flat

Read that again: ISN’T flat.

Photo by The New York Public Library on Unsplash of a non-flat earth

August 24, 1989 is a day of infamy for many baseball fans. That is the day Pete Rose was made permanently ineligible from being placed on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. April 23, 2020 was my very own day of infamy. It was the day that I, too, got a lifetime ban — from Quora.

Email to me from Quora of their fateful decision

What was the trespass that got me banned? I said that the earth is not flat.

Photo of the earth by NASA on Unsplash — still not flat

Let’s talk about Quora for a minute

Quora is a question and answer website where anyone can ask a question, and anyone can answer. It monetizes questions, so there is somewhat of an incentive to ask silly and inane questions in a myriad of different variants. Some variants of these Quora questions I have seen are:

● How do you say <term> in <language>? — Hundreds of people have chosen not to check Google Translate first.