Because they are not paying for answers, or good thoughtful in-depth answers at that, they are paying for Questions. From my understanding, the better your que

Because they are not paying for answers, or good thoughtful in-depth answers at that, they are paying for Questions. From my understanding, the better your question does, the more money it generates. This puts incentives on questions that are (A) most likely to be asked and (B) answers that will drive traffic to the questions. Quora used to be more like Wikipedia, and now it's more like Yahoo answers.