I think that is does benefit Quora for content providers to see how much traffic is being generated from their site. If I knew an article was getting a lot of t

I think that is does benefit Quora for content providers to see how much traffic is being generated from their site. If I knew an article was getting a lot of traction on a site I would spend more time on there, perhaps participate and continue to improve and generate content itself, thus benefiting Quora with more data and more links for everyone.