About as little as it is doing to stop it on Upwork, of which Quora is an enterprise client (they’re still recruiting question writers there):
Nick Nicholas’ answer to Has Quora ever hired people to ask questions on a particular topic?
And it looks like 50c an answer is the rate there too:
I’m looking for someone to search for questions about how to play/train on Baseball/Basketball/Golf/Swimming on Quora and to post answers related to the questions by referring to what a company’s online solutions can offer. A Quora account and sample of answers shall be provided. Pay Rate: 20 answers for $10. NOTE: You should be familiar with the sports as in how to play/train or coach a sport, not the spectator part of it (news, teams, views, etc). We’re looking for those that know the following sports.
50c?! Cf. John L. Miller’s answer to Will (and should) Quora ever pay its content creators?
If I give you a computer because I like giving people computers, that makes me happy. If I give you a computer because you’re paying me $50, I no longer have the joy of giving AND it is worth more to me than $50 (even if no one else will pay anything for it), so I’m losing money and unhappy.
50c… is not going to motivate me to do the kind of answer I do for free. FFS.
I read with some… puzzlement the following answer:
It’s a win win (x2) for all the parties involved.
A freelance writer gets money.
A company gets exposure.
Quora establishes itself as the go-to place for quality content.
Users get their answers from a professional and get to discover companies related to their interests. Maybe they can even get their problems solved.
Does that 50c an answer question sound like it’ll be quality content? Does it sound like anything but spam?
One would think, at any rate, that spam prevention would be better than spam cure. Then again, one would think that Quora would take a dimmer perspective on Do My Homework questions too.
Upwork is awash with people paying freelancers to do their homework, btw. Behold: the programmers of the future. And weep for the species…