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I started my Quora Journey in 2016, here are few tips that helped me continue on this platform so far, in the safest way possible:If you are new please read: Getting started on Quora It is a comprehensive post with tips by Deepak Mehta (दीपक मेहता) regarding ensuring following:How to manage your feed/timeline in lines with your interest, how to ask questions or guidelines for doing so?He also has curated some intuitive tips for answering and shares them under Guidelines for answers on Quora.He also talks about the Upvote-Downvote best practices and about some good and bad reasons to downvote on Quora.Also shares tips on, How to start and maintain a Quora blog?He went ahead and covers the value and benefits of ‘Bookmarking’. or, How to use it efficiently?He shares views on interaction over the comment section.How to mute or block a user whose content is annoying or in case he seems to be abusive respectively.Expect the post by Deepak enriched with the list of Do’s and Don’t that covers almost every policy such as:BNBR or you can say Be Nice, Be Respectful .Self Promotion is allowed though you should go ahead and give a read to Quora's Policy on Self-Promotion.Quora’s policy on correct way of attribution Proper AttributionQuora’s policy on ImagesTips on curating topics, please do a manual search to avoid duplicate results. In case of uncertainty always post on Topic Gnomery.The post also share and encourage to become an active and sensible contributor.In brief, Deepak’s post talks about a lot of tips which are good enough to help you get started and work around without any major challenge.However, you might stumble and wonder that many out here violating the policies mentioned above. Don’t follow the league, those answer might be upvoted, however, they might get collapsed or reported. You need to adhere to the policies and play by the rule of the house. Because that’s what civilized men and women do.It doesn’t matter whether you follow anyone or not, if you are interested to continue your journey ensure you follow below:The Official Account of Quora, this is where they post all their policies in form of Q & A. And of course while you are at there, don’t miss to follow the official blog: The Quora Blog.Do follow the official Product Blog: Quora Product Updates, This one covers latest updates. If you follow the blog, you will be updated on various changes Quora staff is making to the platform and their ideology behind that.Wondering about the Quora Moderation, curious about latest changes do keep a track by following Quora Moderation Updates.Disclaimer:The ‘Trial & Error’ method does not work if you play around with Quora’s Real Name Policy. You might get an edit block and then subsequently it leads to a permanent ban.Harassment, Instigating Hate, Suicidal tendencies are tracked and reported, please ensure you ain’t the one propagating. Ladies and Gentlemen! pay good attention to BNBR i.e. Be Nice, Be Respectful .Sure, you are legit medical practitioner and a registered attorneys /prosecutors, that said you need to adhere to Quora’s Medical Dislaimers and Quora’s Legal Disclaimers diligently.Getting to know a bit more about Quora Features:Thanked someone yet? Time to discover and explore the ‘Thank Button’.Want to report a possible person responsible for vandalism/harassment check their ‘Edit Log’ section on their profile, that is where all the action gets captured.Wondering how people who aren’t either Top Writers or the Popular ones and still are getting the tag of ‘Published Writers’. Time for you to check Quora's Publishing Nominations Blog. But don’t get excited and start spamming with submission, do pay close attention it the Guidelines for the blog.Did you explored the ‘Turn On Notification’ feature yet. No, okay! allow me to elaborate:Suppose you are interested in a writer’s content, say ‘Mr.A’. But most of the time you get annoyed because following him had possibly cluttered your feed with his upvoted/commented posts. And not the one that he has written. Unfollow and hit that ‘Turn On’ button at their profile.Let’s assume that you love the content they upvote and appreciate the activity. But often miss out on latest answers they wrote. You, my friend got a gift from Quora i.e. ‘Turn on notification’, hit that one it will fix the issue instantly.In conclusion, it is very simply this:‘Follow’ implies you come across the content or actions of the Quoran you follow.Turn on Notifications implies that you get a notified every single time they write an answer on Quora, Asks a Question, or make a Blog post. Whether or not you follow.Messaging: You are a private person don’t want any one to bother you. you got three options:Allow anyone to message you.Allow only messages from users you followBlock everyone from messaging you.It’s simple to go ahead and follow this path: Profile→ Settings→ Privacy: Under Inbox preferences, you can select your choice:Pass Button is something that gives you a liberty to politely refuse any question that you aren’t willing to answer:Pass button further gives you ‘Give a Reason’ button, hence the luxury of sharing your reason to decline is also with you downvote the question in case if it seems inappropriate:Start a SessionWant to host a session right away?Step 1: Go to ‘Answer’ on the sidebar.Step 2: You’ll see a “Start Taking Questions” and a blue box ‘Get Started’ on the right. Something like the image below:Now go ahead and ask your follower to ask a question on the topic of your choice. There that’s how it works on PC. However, on a regular Quora Android app, you have to go to Answer Requests and it’ll be on the top of the screen.Advertising on Quora: Are you a business? Do you find potential promoting your product and company on Quora?Please don’t! just don’t attempt any black hat practice or embed spam content. It is futile.It is a humiliation to an entire community who follows a civilized way of advertising and communicating. Also, because Quora has now made it more easy for you.In words of Sarah Smith, VP-Advertising Sales & Operations at Quora:You can easily create an account here: https://www.quora.com/businessYou will need to be logged-in to your Quora account to access the Ads Manager. We offer a native text-based ad unit with three main targeting options. You can target by topic, geography, and platform.The ad platform is built on an auction system so your pricing is determined by you bid per click. We already have hundreds of active advertisers on Quora and welcome your feedback!Source:How do I advertise on Quora?Last tip:Explore more by engaging yourself with the community. Contribute as a reader, writer, questioner, and also volunteer as a moderator. Quora is improving rapidly and working towards fixing the issues, improving the user experience. Be patient towards the staff. And use the platform to its fullest.Note: All Images used are screenshots and owned by the Author.Edit 1:As requested by Gaurav Bhatt, presenting easy steps to mute an unwanted topic:Mute a topic from a Topic page by clicking the three dots beneath the question text and choosing Mute Topic.The right most corner of your screen will show something like this:On the web: When a topic is muted the checkbox next to “Mute Topic” will be checked. To Unmute, click the checkbox to remove the check.On our mobile apps: When a topic is Muted, the text in the menu will change to say Unmute. Clicking Unmute will allow questions with that topic to once again appear in your feed.You can read more here:How is muting a topic different from unfollowing it?Introducing Muting: New Controls for Your FeedSource: Is there a way to mute / ignore / block a topic from appearing in my feed?Hope this helps, for other features keep exploring Quora.Also, do mention in comment section down below, in case you find it difficult to look for a specific feature that you expect might be available on Quora. I will try to help with my limited knowledge and experience on Quora.

No. The farmers who made up of his majority of his military were mainly farmers. When harvest time would come they would go home. He did not have the money from muskets to clothes.The farmers and others were not soldiers. Yet they were going to fight the number 1 military soldiers in the world which were the British.General Washington got Congress to hire this guy. He became a key member of Washington's Generals who trained the farmers into soldiers.This was a Hessian German Soldier.WikipediaFriedrich Wilhelm von SteubenFriedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, by Charles Willson PealeFriedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben (born Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben; September 17, 1730 – November 28, 1794), also referred to as Baron von Steuben (German:[fɔn ˈʃtɔʏbn̩]), was a Prussian and later an American military officer. He served as Inspector General and a Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was one of the fathers of the Continental Army in teaching them the essentials of military drills, tactics, and discipline.[1] He wrote Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, the book that served as the Army's drill manual for decades. He served as General George Washington's chief of staff in the final years of the war.Portrait of Major General von Steuben wearing the badge of the Society of the Cincinnati by Ralph EarlThe Baron, his Italian Greyhound Azor (which he took with him everywhere), his young aide-de-camp Louis de Pontière, his military secretary, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (then called Pierre Etienne Du Ponceau), and two other companions, reached Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on December 1, 1777, where they were almost arrested for being British because Steuben had mistakenly outfitted them in red uniforms.[7] They were extravagantly entertained in Boston.[citation needed] On February 5, 1778, Steuben and his party arrived in York, Pennsylvania, where the Continental Congress had relocated after being ousted from Philadelphia by the British advance. Arrangements were made for Steuben to be paid following the successful completion of the war according to his contributions. He arrived at Valley Forge on February 23, 1778, and reported for duty as a volunteer. One soldier's first impression of the Baron was "of the ancient fabled God of War ... he seemed to me a perfect personification of Mars. The trappings of his horse, the enormous holsters of his pistols, his large size, and his strikingly martial aspect, all seemed to favor the idea. He turned the volunteers into a great army."[7]Inspector GeneralEditWashington appointed von Steuben as temporary inspector general. He went out into the camp to talk with the officers and men, inspect their huts, and scrutinize their equipment. Steuben established standards of sanitation and camp layouts that would still be standard a century and a half later. There had previously been no set arrangement of tents and huts. Men relieved themselves where they wished, and when an animal died it was stripped of its meat and the rest was left to rot where it lay. Steuben laid out a plan to have rows for command, officers, and enlisted men. Kitchens and latrines were on opposite sides of the camp, with latrines on the downhill side. There was the familiar arrangement of company and regimental streets.On May 5, 1778, on General Washington's recommendation, Congress appointed Steuben inspector general of the army, with the rank and pay of major general. The internal administration had been neglected, and no books had been kept either as to supplies, clothing, or men. Steuben became aware of the "administrative incompetence, graft, war profiteering" that existed.[14] He enforced the keeping of exact records and strict inspections. His inspections saved the army an estimated loss of five to eight thousand muskets.[10]Training programEditBaron von Steuben Drilling Troops at Valley Forge, by E. A. Abbey (c.1904), Pennsylvania State Capitol, HarrisburgSteuben picked 120 men from various regiments to form an honor guard for General Washington, and used them to demonstrate military training to the rest of the troops.[10] These men in turn trained other personnel at regimental and brigade levels. Steuben's eccentric personality greatly enhanced his mystique. In full military dress uniform, he twice a day trained the soldiers who, at this point, were themselves greatly lacking in proper clothing.[15]As he could only speak and write a small amount of English, Steuben originally wrote the drills in German, the military language of Europe at the time. His secretary, Du Ponceau, then translated the drills from German into French, and a secretary for Washington translated it to English. They did this every single night so Washington could command his soldiers in the morning. Colonel Alexander Hamilton and General Nathanael Greene were of great help in assisting Steuben in drafting a training program for the Army. The Baron's willingness and ability to work with the men, as well as his use of profanity (in several different languages), made him popular among the soldiers.[7] It is here he met his reputed future lover, Captain Benjamin Walker. Upon meeting Walker for the first time he exclaimed, "If I had seen an angel from Heaven I should not have more rejoiced." Within weeks, Walker was Steuben's aide-de-camp.[16]Steuben introduced a system of progressive training, beginning with the school of the soldier, with and without arms, and going through the school of the regiment. This corrected the previous policy of simply assigning personnel to regiments. Each company commander was made responsible for the training of new men, but actual instruction was done by sergeants specifically selected for being the best obtainable.In the earlier part of the war, the Americans used the bayonet mostly as a cooking skewer or tool rather than as a fighting instrument.[10] Steuben's introduction of effective bayonet charges became crucial. In the Battle of Stony Point, Continental Army soldiers attacked with unloaded muskets and won the battle solely on Steuben's bayonet training.[17]The first results of Steuben's training were in evidence at the Battle of Barren Hill, May 20, 1778, and then again at the Battle of Monmouth in June 1778. Steuben, by then serving in Washington's headquarters, was the first to determine that the enemy was heading for Monmouth.[18]During the winter of 1778–1779, Steuben prepared Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, commonly known as the "Blue Book".[19][20] Its basis was the training plan he had devised at Valley Forge.[21] It was used by the United States Army until 1814,[7] and affected U.S. drills and tactics until the Mexican–American War of 1846.[14]On May 2, 1779, during the second Middlebrook encampment, a review of the army was held to honor the French minister Conrad Alexandre Gérard de Rayneval and the Spanish diplomat Juan de Miralles. Led by General William Smallwood, four battalions performed precise military formations to demonstrate their mastery of Steuben's training.[22] After the review, about sixty generals and colonels attended a dinner hosted by Steuben in a large tent near his headquarters at the Abraham Staats House.[23]Southern campaignEditMount Gulian, Fishkill, NYIn 1780 Steuben sat on the court-martial of the British Army officer Major John André, captured and charged with espionage in conjunction with the defection of General Benedict Arnold.[4]:289 He later traveled with Nathanael Greene, the new commander of the Southern campaign.[4]:344–345 He quartered in Virginia, since U.S. supplies and soldiers would be provided to the army from there. Steuben would help in the defense of Virginia with approximately 1,000 militia fighting a delaying action in the Battle of Blandford. During the spring of 1781, he aided Greene in the campaign in the South, culminating in the delivery of 450 Virginia Continentals to Lafayette in June.[24]

Reasonableness of QUORA’s self-plagiarism policy?QUORA's policy prohibiting self-plagiarism is reasonable and the norm for any reference source that wants to be taken as a credible, reputable knowledge base — consider it as its Style Manual and Terms of Service.While many questions are expecting opinions, it does not excuse them from what I often refer to as requiring “rational, reasoned, referenced [sourced], and substantiated answers” including acknowledging the recycling of your thoughts.[Start blockquote][Comment update today Shawn McCaslin :] I approach my QUORA answers in the context of their mission to be a credible source of knowledge.This includes using my stylistic voice with my personal experience and anecdotes. I take it my answers seriously as an independent scholar while still calling on my life experience. I think it is reasonable for QUORA to employ the standards of published nonfiction writing, “reasoned, rational, and referenced (sourced).” Self-plagiarism is a “no-no, ” not just in academia, but in serious media, the publishing industry, and the law.My Quoran peer ask for an example from the New York Times -- Slavoj Žižek On 'Self Plagiarism' in The New York Times: What's the Big Deal?If following the self-plagiarism prohibition is an issue than QUORA is probably not a good fit.[End blockquote]The consequences of self-plagiarism include:Misleading the reader by omission that this is an original answerInadvertent intellectual property violations when the writers' words include analysis and synthesis from other sourcesScholarly and Journalistic fraud by recycling portions into smaller publications to increase reported productivityDevelop a bad habit that an employer or client would find problematic if found outInclusion of irrelevant or out-of-date material from cut and paste habitProfessional and personal ethics violationHow hard is it to say, “as noted in a previous answer, comment, or blog … ”?As noted in a Comment to Shawn McCaslin[Begin blockquotes ]Self-plagiarism is a “no, no” in any serious writing from acadamia to research reports to journalism to legal works when sourced material is an expected part of the written or oral presentation.For QUORA, simply referencing this is a reuse of answer or comment is probably sufficient but I usually Google my answer and include the link -- too many years in academia.In formal works, a full citation is included in the references and in-text citations (like Wikipedia) else it is self-plagiarism. QUORA expects to be a reputable source of knowledge; therefore, it holds writers to the same standards of academic and research writing. It is not a 4F (Friends, Family, & Foes, Forum).Many questions on QUORA run a fine line between whatrequires a reasoned opinion andone that requires,a reasoned,referenced,substantiated answer.In my full answer that will acknowledge and include this comment, I discuss the consequences of self-plagiarism.What is self-plagiarism?“The reuse of significant, identical, or nearly identical portions of one's own work without acknowledging that one is doing so or citing the original work is sometimes described as "self-plagiarism"; the term "recycling fraud" has been used.” Wikipediahttps://www.quora.com/Is-Quoras-policy-regarding-self-plagiarism-reasonable/answer/Shawn-McCaslin/comment/30845216?srid=uhiJc&share=a788e289-Self-Plagiarism- WriteCheckTurnitin - Is Recycling Your Own Work Plagiarism?Source: What Is Self Plagiarism and How to Avoid It The Ethics of Self-Plagiarism https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/92785/file-5414624-pdf/media/ith-selfplagiarism-whitepaper.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwih962K_J_SAhWC5IMKHaIkAFcQFgghMAE&usg=AFQjCNF-G8Wkl7V60GznVgPAbd31_87scg&sig2=fbucT5AwvAzOcXl0Dgjn-gSelf-plagiarism and Fair Use https://www.google.com/url?q=http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url%3Furl%3Dhttp://155.97.32.9/~bbenham/Phil%2525207570%252520Website/pdfs-Authorship/selfplag%252520or%252520fairuse%25253F.pdf%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26scisig%3DAAGBfm2PZf0MngOIrkWYohSnmBMGFuzsqw%26nossl%3D1%26oi%3Dscholarr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwih962K_J_SAhWC5IMKHaIkAFcQgAMIGSgAMAA&usg=AFQjCNEekcI3Dowp_0A7JZ4yeq4GyHaNsAIs self-plagiarism illegal? | QUORA[End blockquotes ]Comment Discussion -- clarifying my position“[Begin blockquotes ]> The relevance is they want to be a credible source; thus they must try to adhere to the norms of academic, journalistic, and legal writing.>>[1]Who wants that? [2]How do you know?[3] Many highly upvoted answers commonly don’t even answer the question asked. I think expectations vary widely, depending on the reader and the question.[1] [2]From the founder"I want to close the year out by articulating our mission: Quora's mission is to share and grow the world's knowledge.The vast majority of human knowledge is still not on the internet. Most of it is trapped in the form of experience in people's heads, or buried in books and papers that only experts can access. world...[As QUORA grows, aims to] provide larger and larger audiences to writers, cover more and more topi. have a greater and greater impact on the world.We hope to become an internet-scale Library of Alexandria, a place where hundreds of millions of people go to learn about anything and share everything they know..." https://blog.quora.Our Mission by Adam D'Angelo on The Quora Blog[3] Answers that do not answer the question asked are suppose to be Reported to Quora Content Moderation -- as I mentioned before, Quora is resource-constrained thus heavily dependent on volunteers and user-self policing.Do you REPORT? How do I report content or users that violate Quora's policies?> Yes, I read your lengthy answer. My answer focused on the concept as a reasonable standard, the original inquiry.>>No, the original question deals specifically with Quora’s policy…“My answer, Yes, is specific to “is theQUORA policy reasonable?" Then, I added the why of "Yes" --here are the concept and norms;QUORA policy is consistent with the norms, andhere is why they careOn the other hand, you did not provide further information in the details section as towhat you really wanted to know or took exception withOr a summary of the policy or at least a link"Reusing any material requires attribution even if it is your own writing … that are not block quoted will likely be considered plagiarism... Answers should always be tailored to the question and in practice… only if you cut-and-paste substantial portions of the answers that you will run afoul of self-plagiarism...Repeatedly posting the same answer on Quora, with or without blockquotes, may be considered spam"[Source]What is Quora's policy on plagiarism and attribution?>Several of the issues you raise regarding self-plagiarism are not addressed by Quora’s policy.So. Given QUORA's mission and my academic background, I habitually add germane information. It is similar to sidebar or inset (normally, now external links) found in good writing.> The Wikipedia article includes the concept of self-plagiarism as a sub-topic and I referenced it. I also referenced other sources specific to the question.>>Yes, but when you pasted content from that article, you left out the part of that article that renders much of your argument irrelevant.When a response is an opinion, debate, or editorial, it is not the other party or writer's responsibility to acknowledge the other side(s). Most of my 1600 answers require an informed, "objective" synthesis and analysis and I, then, try to present all sides. My opinion of the reasonableness only requires a substantiated, reasoned answer.> Yes, QUORA's knowledge base is full of trash but it does not invalidate the concept of self-plagiarism.>>Agreed, but the extensive redundancy does effectively quash reasonable expectations of unique answers...So!Reducing redundancy;improving the quality of information;reducing junk; andreducing poor qualityis the HOLY GRAIL of all database management systems.Whether users expect it is irrelevant. Duplication, poor quality, and junk costs QUORA money -- space, servers, processing, hosting, software quality control, staffing, etc.> Those answers that are substantiated produce reputable writers enhancing QUORA’s credibility.>>How is this relevant?REREAD QUORA‘s PURPOSE & MISSIONQuora: Forging Online Authority One Answer at a Time Quora: Forging Online AuthorityCan I use Quora answers for a research paper?Is Can I use answers from Quora as references in my essay? If so, in what form should I write? really a good source of information?Is Quora really a good source of information?QUORA is striving to become a credible online information hub of experts, scholars, and writers producing rational, reasonable, and referenced answers. Adhering to the norms of no self-plagiarism is critical to that goal.___“[End blockquotes ]https://www.quora.com/Is-Quoras-policy-regarding-self-plagiarism-reasonable/answer/Shawn-McCaslin/comment/30845216?srid=uhiJc&share=a788e289https://www.quora.com/Is-Quoras-policy-regarding-self-plagiarism-reasonable/answer/Shawn-McCaslin/comment/30852397?srid=uhiJc&share=5b88deddhttps://www.quora.com/Is-Quoras-policy-regarding-self-plagiarism-reasonable/answer/Shawn-McCaslin/comment/30901950?srid=uhiJc&share=8f0c6f71