As a global knowledge sharing platform, Quora places a high value on the free and open exchange of knowledge, experiences, and perspectives. On Quora, disagreements can happen in an atmosphere of mutual respect because most people choose to treat each other that way. We work out issues through conversation, ignore, block, or mute if that doesn’t work, and report when those don’t work. Quora policies are designed to be permissive of these hard conversations without allowing behavior such as harassment, exploitation, or abuse. Today we’re announcing an update to the platform policies and reporting options to bring more consistent reporting options across questions, answers, and Spaces. With this update, we’re refining our policies covering harassment and bullying, self-harm, harmful activities, sexual exploitation and abuse, and aligning the reporting options to match the policies. What’s not changing is our belief people on Quora should treat each other with kindness and respect.

When a report does need to be made, it can sometimes be hard to know how to do it. Profiles, Spaces, questions, answers, and comments have all had different reporting categories. This update brings us closer to a more consistent reporting framework and provides the more granular reporting options that many of you have been asking for.

What has changed?

Notable changes include updated policies covering harassment and bullying, self-harm, harmful activities, and sexual exploitation and abuse, more granular question and Space-level reporting options, plus new options for answers. We’ve also added an option to report policy violations that don’t seem like they fit any of the categories.

Here’s the link to the updated policies:

Keep in mind that the help center is the text of the policy; this is an announcement of the policy, not a policy document.

What do these changes mean for you?

If you’ve had comments, answers, questions, or other content removed incorrectly in these categories, this redesign will make it less likely that will happen. At the same time, this redesign will refine the policies against things like harassment, bullying, sexual exploitation, and abuse. This redesign will also enable the moderation team to respond more quickly to reports. The world doesn’t stand still and neither do we, so these policies will be reviewed and adapted as needed to counter emerging threats.

Suggestions for new features or new policies are best directed to Quora Product Feedback, where the suggestion will get the attention of the appropriate team and not left as a comment below. Questions about specific situations should be directed here: Help Center.

Screenshots of reporting options can be seen here.