What are some of the most followed questions on Quora?

As of 11 April 2019 some of the most followed questions on Quora (with more than 2000 followers) are: What can I learn/know right now in 10 minutes that will be useful for the rest of my life? (40k followers) How do top students study? (22.5k followers) What are some books that expand our mind? (16.8k followers)

What is the difference between a question and a topic?

A question is a probability distribution of topics, and every topic is a probability distribution of words. What LDA does is that when you fit it with all those questions, it is trying its best to find the best topic mix and the best word mix. We want LDA to learn the topic mix in each question and the word mix in each topic.

How does Quora assign topics to questions?

The algorithm that Quora uses to assign topics to questions is proprietary, so, we would not know exactly how they do it. However, it does not stop us from trying it out in our own ways. Quora has all these existing questions, unlabeled, and they need to categorize them and to fit the next step of machine learning pipeline.

How can I get more views and views on Quora?

If you want to get a lot of up-votes and views on your Quora answers just search the internet for a headshot (or selfie) of the most attractive woman you can find and use it as your profile picture. Don’t worry, you won’t get banned for basically impersonating another person by proxy. Quora doesn’t give a hoot about those things.

Is it possible to spam thousands of questions on Quora?

In theory it would be but in reality this is what happens: some users go totally overboard and literally spam thousands of questions which are all structured in a similar manner just to get this elusive title.

What happens if you say something not nice on Quora?

As soon as you say anything that could be perceived as “not nice” (which for the record is an extremely elusive criterion that is clearly open to interpretation) you will get a warning from the Quora moderation (been there, done that) and once you accumulate multiple warnings you’ll get banned. And that’s not even the best part.