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Question and answer sites usually fall in this category (irony of this being on Quora is not lost on anyone)

Naver, yahoo answers, answers.com, and stackoverflow are counterexamples. You're right though that there are a lot of failures

I would classify yahoo answers as mostly a failure.

Really? It's been a top-30 web site for four or five years ... Why do you see it as a failure?