Yes, Community Assistants are paid employees of the Answers corporation.
Yes, the Community Assistants do get paid.
Community Assistants are paid employees. Anyone else that contributes to WikiAnswers is doing so voluntarily.
No. All WikiAnswers contributors answer questions just for the fun of it, not for profit. Community Assistants, who are Answers.com employees, are paid.
No, they are regular contributors who do this as a hobby. Community Assistants' (CA's) work in the WikiAnswers office and they do. It's their job.
As Community Assistants are paid employees of the Answers.com corporation, they likely must be online during the times assigned, or enough to fulfill requirements; work time depends just like any other job. Of course, this does not mean that Community Assistants are on WikiAnswers solely due to their jobs.
All Supervisors and Community Assistants can give warnings on WikiAnswers.
The Community Assistants have the most power.
The administrators of WikiAnswers who have all the powers of supervisors and more are Community Assistants. They are the ones who actually get paid to work on WikiAnswers, and you must apply for a job at Answers Corp. and request to work with WikiAnswers.
WikiAnswers is owned by answers.com. The highest users on this site (they work for WikiAnswers/Answers) are the Community Assistants.
Community Assistants can be contacted via their message boards or emails.(See the Related question for the full list of Community Assistants.)
Zanbabe (Suzanne) (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/User:Zanbabe) is currently the only community assistant on WikiAnswers.
Yes they are also known as community assistants