Once they started monetizing things got worse. Financial incentives led to people gaming the site, which always leads to crap content. You need a low barrier t

Once they started monetizing things got worse. Financial incentives led to people gaming the site, which always leads to crap content. You need a low barrier to entry to get free content, but then that makes it easy to pump full of crap. But you need that content to get users and monetization <shrug>. Quora has handled that much worse than, say, reddit. But reddit doesn't allow their users to monetize their content, which keeps the spammers at bay.