Around that time, Quora also hired Marc Bodnick. As Marc has no programming skills but is rather a middle aged ex-VC, this hire was referred to in the press as Quora getting "Adult Supervision", or Quora bringing someone on board to explore "revenue opportunities."
So what's Marc been doing since January 2011?
Well, thanks to one Quora user who has nothing better to do with his time than work on statistics, we have detailed insight into Marc's activities.
Ever wanted to know who has voted up the most answers on Quora? The answer is Marc Bodnick. He's voted up more than 9,000 answers on the service. The next closest person is another Quora employee who has voted up a mere 2000 answers.
That's right folks, Quora's "Adult Supervision" hire spends his time reading and voting up answers to satisfy user's egos so they spend more time on the site.
Seems like they could have just hired someone from Mechanical Turk to do that.
http://www.quora.com/Quora-Usage-Statistics/Which-Quora-users-upvote-the-most-answers