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12 reasons not to take relationship advice from Quora

There are plenty of places to seek serious dating advice online. On Quora, you can find out more about relationship farting etiquette.

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There are plenty of places to seek serious dating advice online. On Quora, you can find out more about relationship farting etiquette.

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The Q&A community is fairly useful for finding new information or gaining understanding perspectives on a range of topics, like why people hate Anne Hathaway. Some use the site to seek cogent advice, like when to disclose a sexually transmitted infection. Others ask some of the worst questions this side of Yahoo Answers.

Skimming through the Dating and Relationships topic, there’s a remarkable number of awful questions. Some are ignorant, others are plainly sexist, as users try to find out more about things like how to deal with a boyfriend who’s finally started working out.

In case you’re wondering whether these questions are outliers—ones we’ve burrowed through the entire site to find—these are all from the last week. 

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How about avoiding doing things that piss off your partner?

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Relationships are nothing more than a game, apparently.


 

For what it’s worth, the same guy asked the last two questions.

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Someone’s been watching Orange Is the New Black

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This isn’t actually atrocious, but why ask a question you’ve answered yourself?

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Wait. Why would you even want to get married on Quora?

We didn’t even scratch the surface of Quora’s pick-up artist topics. That’s another level of awful.

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H/T Max Woolf | Photo via roofwalker/Flickr

 
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