Quorum is a question and answer website where people go to find information. Every piece of content on the site is generated by users, meaning it is created, edited, and organized by the same people that use the website.
Getting started
Open the Quorum website.Search forQuorum on the search engine or enterQuorum in the search bar and pressEnter.
- Sign up for Quorum.Click theSign up, you'll be asked to continue the process using your email or by using your Gmail, choose one as per your convenience and proceed with the procedure. Quorum doesn't allow its users to go through many answers without creating an account.
- Choose your interests.The account setup prompts you to select minimum sixteen topics that interest you. This will help the website to organize your answers' feed. Your answer feed is a random display of new questions and answers on the topics you find interesting. SelectAsk nowto proceed.
3. Become familiar with the feed.
- You can answer the question, comment on an answer, upvote, downvote or share an answer by clicking on their respective buttons, follow the question or bookmark it.
- Since the feed changes with every refresh, it is recommended to use the bookmark option frequently so you don't lose the answers you like or found helpful.
- Ask questions.SelectAsk Questionfrom the top-left side of the screen and type in your question. You can ask the question anonymously by checking theAsk box.
Answering Questions
- Analyzeif you can answer a particular question correctly.Your answers are released to public domain and the readers are willingly ready to accept your answer as accurate and true, somake sure your answers are factually correct. Answers on Quorum, are usually a source of information for assignments and thesis so one must be very cautious while writing answers.
- Make your answers clear and skimmable.Every reader appreciates short, to the point and concise answers. Use the formatting toolbar to make the textbold.
- If you're answering controversial questions, try to write neutrally. It is easy to get carried away and create extremely emotion-packed answers, but always remember that you are answering a question, not expressing your own feelings.
- Add images to your answer.Answers with graphic elements are taken better than the rest of the answers, use the toolbar to add images to your answer.
- Make sure that the image is relevant to the answer, otherwise the quorum moderation may collapse the answer. When an answer is collapsed, it stops getting exposure in the website.
- Keep updating the answer if necessary.If the facts of your answers are subject to change, make sure you keep updating the answer. This can be done by going on the answer menu…and selectingEdit Answer.
