What went wrong with Quora?

Question

Newsfeed content quality seems to have nosedived a year or two ago and never recovered. Are they doing okay as a business? Were they too dependent on Google traffic? What could they be doing differently?

RNeff · Accepted Answer

Quora has a program where they pay people a tiny amount to post questions. So there are a lot of stupid questions that could be easily answered with a google / wikipedia / imdb search.
My favorite question, a triple stupid question: "Does California make good wine?" 1. California is a big place, with many different climate zones. 2. There are at least a hundred different varietals. 3: 'good' is a relative term.
Also tons of spammy ads.

jamil7 · Answer

Same thing as everything else, it&rsquo;s full of &ldquo;growth hackers&rdquo; answering questions in order to market themselves or some product or service.