“My suicidal urge had subsided as soon as my period set in. But when I saw the email from Quora, I was surprised and I felt uncomfortable. Such an email could reinforce suicidal tendencies among those who are depressed or in a bad premenstrual phase. At this point, I decided that I must highlight the issue.”
“Quora has a huge reach, especially among youngsters. As a social platform, they have a huge responsibility to filter promotional emails that could result in harm. Quora should take note of this and refine their algorithms further. It is a powerful example to demonstrate how technology that is designed rather innocently may end up doing harm. If someone is looking for ways to rape or murder someone, or ways to take their own life, Quora must filter such content and also fine-tune their algorithms to avoid sending out emails that reinforce such tendencies.”
