I think you're more likely to get kinder, more thoughtful responses here, than on Quora...

Does Quora provide a way for users to know how old others are? That seems unlikely.

I haven't looked at Quora enough to know how it works, but what I have seen looked extremely unreliable and, well, kind of cheesy.

Do some users earn money asking or answering questions?

Actually, I can barely remember a time I actually received an answer to any of my questions on Quora. Perhaps one time, but that didn't really count. As for the age group, it's obvious, matthias. Many of the old crowd have either entered nursing homes or passed on, in a time span of 20 years. What's left online? The young crowd by a big majority.

carol, I mostly mean Reddit, insofar as bad experiences, but it was also once on MadSci, and these days, practically everywhere online.

There had been one forum I once came across which was really good, and dedicated solely for getting one's sundry questions answered. I.E. no need to dialog, as in a regular forum. Nor was there karma or other such complications. How I wish I'd have jotted down its name. Due to poor recall I can't remember. But the interface was like a regular forum (not like Reddit or Quora).

20 years ago, I'm sure I'd have found a place to get my "soup" question answered. These days? fuhgedabouditt. Like, where do I get hold of a good chef to answer my question. Because uh... that's what it boils down to, forgive the pun. ;-) BTW, don't y'all agree that monosyllabic flipness is the other side of the coin of multi-syllabic snobbishness? It's really just a generational style, but the intent is the same, as telepathic people are probably aware.

You're half right about Reddit. Just realize it goes both ways... The young ones over there get bashed by baby boomers all the time. Get told that they have no work ethic, and other such broad strike idiocies because they're millennials or younger. At least that's what my "younger" child tells me.

It does seem to be an all war.

https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/23pu6d/cmv_hating_baby_boomers_is_no_different_from/

Bad Karma means trolls can't post on a sub more than once every five minutes. Surely this is not a big problem for regular people?

You acquire Bad Karma by being downvoted, a lot.

Rob, about my being half-right, read my last two sentences, wherein I acknowledged it goes both ways. I'm also not well-versed enough not to get dizzy from reading the entirety your link, interesting as it is.. I was just simply saying it how i experienced it, and i still don't even know of any old-fashioned type forum whereby I might find a chef to answer my Q about acid-saliva from soup.

It so happens, though, that I just now researched Quora for "root-canal vs. implant" - and i sure am happy I did. That's because last year or the year before, I posted on Houzz my sensitivity experience resulting from root canal on tooth #7, and everyone on Houzz, including pro's, were insisting that root-canal is not supposed to result in pain, because the tooth becomes dead.

Well, fast forward, and as of now my molar #30 broke, and i'm told it runs deep and will need a root canal specialist and gum work. But due to my last experience, i'm seriously considering opting for an implant instead, because my tooth #7 is sensitive to this day (ever since root-canal) - in the gum above the tooth (behind upper lip).

And that is why i'm happy i found the below on Quora, as its proof the pro's are wrong, and that both myself and the testimony in below URL (by dentist Ivan Terrero) are exceptions to the rule:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-longest-time-taken-for-a-root-canal-to-settle-Mine-is-still-tender-after-5-weeks

Doesn't it suck? It doesn't matter if it's boomers, millennials, or younger. I'm sick of the fight. I love the link because it points out you can't control when you're born. What advantages each has...

It means that when you immerse inside a quicksand-type of pool for about 10-15 minutes (while the sun is beating down), you then feel as if a suctioning vacuum cleaner is applying suction to your legs, and it feels very therapeutic, like bad stuff is being pulled out of you. It literally felt like this: Pull-pull-pull. I.E. Like a pulsating pulling feeling. (Or you can substitute the term "drawing" for the term "pulling"). I know this, because I experienced it once at the Northern Dead Sea in the 1990s.

But then many years later, while researching online, I came to realize the Salton Sea has the same "suctioning" properties as the Dead Sea. Both places are basically like quicksand. I believe there's another such place somewhere in the midwest. I don't mean Utah, but somewhere else.

As for getting Qs answered free, I've not used MadSci for a long time, but you can check it out here:

http://madsci.org/submit.html

The following: https://www.eytonsearth.org/bentonite.html is also sorta relevant, but i personally have not found clay baths to be helpful at all. Rather, the only truly effective experience i had was at a grounded mud-pool (under sun) adjacent to Dead Sea.

Thanks Jally for answering my question. It sounds like a physics thing-gravity and liquidity or something like that. Not one of my strengths.

y.w.