What are the best Q&A websites for subjective questions?

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Best Q&A websites for subjective questions	Price	Price	Available
95 Slant.co	-	-	-
-- Reddit	-	-	-
63 Quora	-	-	-
-- Answeree.com	Free	-	-
-- What Should I Do?	-	-	-

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36 Other Options Considered

Reddit

Top Pro

Has complete subreddits

Makes it possible to ask anything. See More

Top Con

Not specifically a job board

Reddit is not specifically a job board, so may lack some of the features you're looking for (such as a strong search feature). See More

ShojiVR's Experience

has complete subreddits, make it possible to ask everything See More

Top Pro

"For hire" posts get a lot of attention

Where many of the current remote job boards are specifically for employees looking to apply to positions, reddit is a good place to post "for hire" ads and allow the employers to contact you. See More

Top Con

Censorship

Top Pro

Variety of freelance and salaried positions

There is a good variety of job types so you're able to find what fits your schedule and lifestyle best. See More

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Quora

Top Pro

All subjects are covered

Unlike the StackExchange which only allows questions on very narrow topics, all questions can be asked at Quora and are neatly categorized with tags. See More

Top Con

Need to log in to see content

Quora forces people to log in to see content, which severely restricts the usefulness of the site, and limits willingness to write content for the site. See More

CaringGefjun's Experience

Vast percentage of Q&A are vapid, repetitive, trollish, etc. , not asking quality questions and not giving rational answers, doing little more than taking up server space; same as virtually every other Q&A website. That's why Yahoo dropped its Answers site, Mahalo went belly-up, et al. See More

Top Pro

Great quality answers

The quality of answers found on Quora are really some of the best around. See More

Top Con

Forces you to use your real name

Many people are most recognisable by screen names which can't be used on Quora. It also is a matter of privacy - some people aren't comfortable having their real name listed on a website for the entire world to see. See More

Alex Watts's Experience

This is a great platform for Q&A. You can ask anything on any subject and get good responses. See More

Top Pro

Rewards "top writers"

With badges, events, and swag. See More

Top Con

Useless Q&As

PoliteChthonius's Experience

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Top Pro

You can see how experienced they are with the topic

This is why they force people to use their real names instead of getting a user called pooplicker888. You can see if they are professional or amateur (trust me, the amateur people can be more experienced than the professionals). See More

Top Con

No context-based ranking

Each post is attached to a specific user and each user can only post once in a thread, so it's impossible to rank (there is a communal wiki on each question). The format is best for qualitative responses. See More

MotivatedRyujin's Experience

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Top Pro

Answers could be written by a famous person

Anybody could be answering the questions, sometimes even famous people such as: Barack Obama, John Green, Richard Muller, Mark Zuckerberg, Jimmy Wales, Michael Bublé, Ben Shapiro, and of course, many other people. See More

Top Con

Blocks Tor, VPNs, and Proxies

Prajesh Sudhakar's Experience

It is a place to gain and share knowledge. It's a platform to ask questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers. See More

Top Pro

Community interested in learning

Quora has a built-in audience interested in learning new things. See More

Top Con

No Pro/Con listing such as on Slant.co

The answers are simply presented as a list of text blocks. They have experimented with review functionality, but that hasn't worked out. See More

TimBer's Experience

Absolutely fantastic place to get the expert opinion on various topics, which is essential for entrepreneurs, content creators and other individuals that aim to perfect themselves in their fields of interest. See More

Top Pro

Tags help promote your content

When you tag your blog post, it will show up in feeds of people following that topic. See More

Top Con

Excluded from the Wayback Machine

You cannot view an archived version of Quora because it has been excluded from the Wayback Machine. You will have to use Archive.is instead. See More

WonderfulHadur's Experience

requires javascript, blocks tor, must login to see content and must use real name and post an actual picture of yourself, cannot save to wayback machine. this anonymity-hating website is desperate for your personal information. See More

Top Con

Cannot view without Javascript

"Please enable Javascript and refresh the page to continue". See More

Yvonne's Experience

There are different topics and a lot of questions and answers. You can find an answer to your question or ask yourself. There is a lot of professionals who could answer. See More

Top Con

No customization options

There is no way of making your Quora blog different from any other Quora blog. It is only an extension of your Quora profile. See More

Lawae's Experience

Great site. I use it daily. See More

Top Con

Lots of people answer anonymously

Probably because you have to use your real name. The anon feature is needed for some questions, but it is unfortunately overused. See More

ShojiVR's Experience

Quora has focus on serious questions, but User need to register to use quora See More

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What Should I Do?

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StackExchange

Top Con

Objective; Not Subjective

The Stack Exchange sites are specifically designed to work for objective questions; questions with subjective answers are explicitly discouraged. See their blog for more information. See More

Top Pro

Popularity / maturity

The Stack Exchange sites have a large user base. Due to this being broken down to sub-sites per topic however some of their sites have more users than others, so depending on the subject matter of the question this pro may not apply. See More

Top Con

Limited in scope

There is a large number of different "stackexchanges", but they are all completely closed off from one another. See More

Top Pro

Subject Matter: Various (site specific)

Whilst sites under the Stack Exchange banner are focussed on specific topics, there are a wide variety of such sites. As such Stack Exchange could be described as being open to questions on any subject matter, but has the advantage that within its sub-sites, questions are targeted to the specific users/audiences of those sites. See More

Top Con

Intolerant and immature culture of the community

The people on the platform aren't very outgoing or accepting of others. See More

Top Pro

Expert-level questions & answers

Many topics have active members who are among the top professionals in their fields. MathOverflow, for example, has Fields Medal winners. See More

Top Con

Popularity contest feeling

The reward system feels like you're in a popularity contest. While this encourages good answers, it feels like everything is built around the reward system. So much that, you need to have certain points to unlock features on the site. See More

Top Pro

User ratings by topic

Users are scored based on their contributions, with the context of those contributions also being scored (i.e. answering a question tagged as being about XML increases that user's XML score). This results in allowing the questioner to gauge a rough idea of the answerer's relative knowledge within a domain when considering their answers vs contradictory answers from other users. See More

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The Answer Bank

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ShareCare

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Girls Ask Guys

Top Con

Niche

Only useful if you want boysplaining. See More

Experts' Exchange

Top Con

Membership Fee

Whilst some information is displayed to non-members, to participate in asking or answering incurs a fee. This is bad for members and non-members alike, as in addition to blocking non-members from using the service, it restricts the pool of users from which answers may be gathered. See More

JollyAeternitas's Experience

Highly recommended, top-notch detailed answers See More

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Sprashivalka

Top Pro

Nice way to meet new people online and have a small talk on any topic

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Slant.co

Top Pro

Pro/con association

When upvoting existing answers, you can associate the pros and cons which influenced your choice of chosen answer(s). See More

Top Con

Has strange ads

Drug and gambling ads are a huge turnoff. See More

Kobold's Experience

The devs are nice people. I like nice people, for they are fun to be around. See More

Top Pro

Community rated answers

Unlike a number of other Q&A sites where the person asking the question picks the winning answer, Slant accepts that they're asking because they don't know the answer, so they allow everyone in the community to pitch in by upvoting the best answer. See More

Top Con

Primarily for comparing products

Slant is a great website for comparing products to each other, but if your question isn't about products, the limits of Slant's format start to show more clearly. See More

Maratik Asiatic :3's Experience

Lol :) See More

Top Pro

Pros and cons vs users' answers

Most Q&A sites give each user the chance to give an answer (sometimes multiple answers). A lot of the content of each user's answers will overlap, resulting in duplication of information (thus more to read), or information being lost in noise (e.g. if someone sees existing answers and adds a missing point without copying existing information, their point will likely languish at the bottom of the list of answers as it did not answer the majority of the question). Slant approaches this differently; rather than focusing on the users, it focuses on the points; Pros and Cons. Any user may amend the information in a pro/con, may vote based on how much that pro/con influenced their decision, and may add their own pros and cons if certain points are missing from the canon. See More

Top Con

Fake and dated ratings

Some ratings seem fake and many of the top lists seem very outdated listing products years and years old when there are better modern alternatives. Probably paid rankings. See More

TimBer's Experience

New to Slant, but it certainly is a platform with potential to offer a comprehensive overview of various products, which is great for online services, where genuine community feedback is key. See More

Top Pro

See all answers clearly

An enumeration of recommendations is easily viewed as a list, making it a good starting point for researching available options. This is the opposite of other sites in which multiple choices may be listed within a single answer, with the need for the user to read through paragraphs of information to pick out the key articles. See More

Top Con

Video ADs

They are annoying and traffic consuming. See More

WonderfulHadur's Experience

Of course Slant would put their own website at the top because bias See More

Top Pro

Designed for subjective questions

Slant.co's reason for being is to answer subjective questions. It was born with the knowledge that other sites existed to handle objective questions and answers, but they made no attempt to handle the intricacies of subjective answers. Slant.co is the only site focused on solving this specific area. See More

Top Con

Needs improvements to avoid redundancy

Many questions can lead to the same app. Example: https://www.slant.co/topics/4648/~es-file-explorer-alternatives-for-android https://www.slant.co/topics/1956/~file-explorers-on-android. If you comment something on "Total Commander", you have to do this in more than one place. According to this the Slant team is working on this issue. See More

Top Pro

Multiple chosen answers

Subjective questions may have more than one answer. Slant allows people to vote for more than one answer as being correct, and to append the pros and cons which influenced their decision to their vote; thus giving a context of in which situations each answer may be considered correct. See More

Top Con

Can be quite biased

For example, this one here: https://www.slant.co/topics/1196/~q-a-websites-for-subjective-questions See More

Top Pro

Public visibility

You do not need to have an account to view existing content (questions or answers). People can see what they're getting into before deciding if they'd like to sign up for an account and contribute to the site. See More

Top Con

Requires javascript

Unusable without JS. See More

Top Pro

Continuously updated for relevance

Since recommendations and pros / cons can be updated by community members, content evolves to reflect modern standards. See More

Top Con

Maturity

The site is still young and has yet to build up the large user base required to have users with knowledge of all areas in which questions may be asked. See More

Top Pro

Subject matter: programming tools, services, & technology

The site is currently dedicated to questions within the technology area. It is implied that as popularity grows it may open up to questions in other subject areas (ref: use of "Starting with..." on their Twitter profile). See More

Top Con

Behind Cloudflare

Slant is behind the Cloudflare MiTM. See More

Top Pro

Allows Google independent rating for Android apps

It can be difficult to get user-ratings for Android apps that are not available on the Google Play Store. So far other sites either indirectly use Google Play Store rankings or some technical writer tells you "which are the best XXX apps for YYY". See More

Top Con

Broken rating system

Developers need to create systems to detect spam votes. At one point Salix was bot voted to the top of "what are the best linux distributions for desktops". See More

Top Pro

Pros and Cons don't travel from question to question

If you see a new question and choose to add an option already recommended in another question, you need to add all pros and cons from scratch. See More

Top Con

Slow response

Updates uppear very slowly. See More

Top Pro

The questions and answers are concise

I can quickly know the advantages and disadvantages of every tool/app/software/game etc and decide which one fits me best. See More

Top Pro

Unbiased information you can trust

Slant isn't financially tied to any products listed on it. All the categories (organized into 'questions'), products (organized as 'options'), and pros/cons are added, and edited by real users - there is no way for a company to pay to have a favorable review (and if they try to do it themselves, the community can report (flag) or edit any false claims). See More

Top Pro

Subjective claims have to be backed up with evidence

Each subjective statement needs to be backed up with objective information. An opinion has to be backed up with facts. An evidence for a claim on Slant can be provided with examples, sources, and facts. See More

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The Best 1 of 37 OptionsWhy?

My Recommendation for Slant.co

My Recommendation for Slant.co

Pro/con association

Has strange ads

Community rated answers

Primarily for comparing products

Pros and cons vs users' answers

Fake and dated ratings

See all answers clearly

Video ADs

Designed for subjective questions

Needs improvements to avoid redundancy

Multiple chosen answers

Can be quite biased

Public visibility

Requires javascript

Continuously updated for relevance

Maturity

Subject matter: programming tools, services, & technology

Behind Cloudflare

Allows Google independent rating for Android apps

Broken rating system

Pros and Cons don't travel from question to question

Slow response

The questions and answers are concise

Unbiased information you can trust

Subjective claims have to be backed up with evidence

36 Other Options Considered

My Recommendation for Reddit

My Recommendation for Reddit

Has complete subreddits

Not specifically a job board

"For hire" posts get a lot of attention

Censorship

Variety of freelance and salaried positions

My Recommendation for Quora

My Recommendation for Quora

All subjects are covered

Need to log in to see content

Great quality answers

Forces you to use your real name

Rewards "top writers"

Useless Q&As

You can see how experienced they are with the topic

No context-based ranking

Answers could be written by a famous person

Blocks Tor, VPNs, and Proxies

Community interested in learning

No Pro/Con listing such as on Slant.co

Tags help promote your content

Excluded from the Wayback Machine

Cannot view without Javascript

No customization options

Lots of people answer anonymously

My Recommendation for Answeree.com

My Recommendation for Answeree.com

Lots of possibilities for member interactions

Users can create signatures

Easy to navigate and fast website

My Recommendation for What Should I Do?

My Recommendation for What Should I Do?

My Recommendation for Qaster

My Recommendation for Qaster

My Recommendation for 3Form

My Recommendation for 3Form

My Recommendation for Wortherendum

My Recommendation for Wortherendum

Provides clear 'verdict'

Doesn't require long answers

No need to log in to see the content

My Recommendation for G2

My Recommendation for G2

Paying for reviews

A lot of products listed

My Recommendation for StackExchange

My Recommendation for StackExchange

Objective; Not Subjective

Popularity / maturity

Limited in scope