No, WikiAnswers will not pay users to add links.
WikiAnswers is ad-supported, meaning that people pay WikiAnswers to display ads on their website. When people click the ads on WikiAnswers, WikiAnswers receives money. WikiAnswers may also get money from partnerships with other websites.Answers.com makes a profit from wikianswers when you click on the textual advertisements provided by Google.
WikiAnswers does not pay for contributions. All contributors and supervisors are volunteers who love the site concept.
WikiAnswers does not have to pay money for each question. Questions are asked by the site's users, and are free of charge.
No, WikiAnswers is a free service.
Paying a fine is too harsh. There should be a delete button with feedback to the person who posts letting them know how their question was dealt with by other people.
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No, and nor is it a profitable organization.
No, the questions are answered by people who come to the site, voluntarily. There are no pay agreements between the people who answer the questions and the website. Interest and passion to share knowledge is what is driving wikianswers.
People spam WikiAnswers because they think that WikiAnswers is an easy target, since anyone can edit anything. However, they do not forsee the 500+ supervisors on WikiAnswers patrolling day and night. They want to advertise something on a popular website, such as WikiAnswers (the 13th most popular site on the web), so they answer a question and post in the community forum with their advertisements for their business because they do not want to pay for an ad.
Because the advertisers on the pages pay to be able to place their ads there. Would you do this if you had to pay for it ?
WikiAnswers answers hundreds and hundreds of questions each day. Many of the questions that are asked are poorly worded and impossibly vague. The others are answered by volunteers as and when they have time. There are other websites where you can pay people to answer questions, and if WikiAnswers does not meet your needs then you are welcome to seek elsewhere.
No. The awards for contributions on WikiAnswers are achievement badges as well as the satisfaction of helping others and acquiring knowledge. WikiAnswers does have regular contests with prizes awarded to winners. See the links below for the Wiki Scholarship program, the newsletter 'No Stupid Answers', where you can find the contests and other events as well as the results as they are announced. Also see the related link for all the opportunities for achievements offered to contributors.