I'd be interested in knowing the thought process/analytics that inspired the idea to pay for questions, and not (highly-upvoted) answers? My main reason for joi

I'd be interested in knowing the thought process/analytics that inspired the idea to pay for questions, and not (highly-upvoted) answers? My main reason for joining Quora was that it seemed to be the social network that Dave Baggett [0] (at the time) was actively using. [0] https://www.quora.com/profile/Dave-Baggett https://www.quora.com/profile/Dave-Baggett