I feel Quora's content quality is slowly becoming more like the dreaded Yahoo! Answers.
For some reason quite a few senior people in my field seem to take time to post extremely authoritative answers to questions on Quora. I don't see any other site coming close to the quality.
If the highest quality answers were also the most well compensated, wouldn't that be the ideal situation? If you have a bunch of paid professionals standing by to answer questions then genuinely curious people might come to your platform to ask. I have no data to back this up, that's only intuition.
And while the good answers seem to get upvoted a lot (the ones I see at least, but that's an obvious case of selection bias if there ever was one), but plenty of terrible or even wrong answers seem to get upvoted a lot too.