Would you pay—real money, not credits—for a good answer?


Would you pay—real money, not credits—for a good answer?

Disintermediation… the real question is whether or not Quora is disintermediating consulting.  Solutions… solutions solve problems.  Gamification… could Quora credits be a version of neo-scrip [1]?  It would be nice if Quora credits could be donated to support some charity of one’s choice, at least contributing towards a solution for someone.

I’m not at all convinced that you could buy the kind of really good answers one gets on Quora, as if serendipitously.  Nor am I convinced that unanswerable Quora questions could even be answered satisfactorily for money.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip