1) The main differences (both for the person that’s asking and the person that’s answering) are:
- Agile & guaranteed number of responses (no need to be a HOT question/topic) - Compensation model - Flexible media types (ask and answer in text, audio (voice), video, poll, and more. - Full anonymity (no social bias and/or no profile/façade to upkeep) - Robust moderation protocol - Gamified and engaging user experience - Target a profiled audience
As for incentives if you’re answering (there’s 3):
- Sake of entertainment and curiosity - To help others - Cash
2) As for unrelated (gibberish/trash) and offensive answers, all you need to do is click an immediately visible “report” button that will trigger an investigation immediately. That answer will be reimbursed and the responder drastically punished if not banned (as tolerance for this is very limited).
3) Plagiarism is not a main area of concern to be honest, in the end if a quote from someone famous or a fragment from Wikipedia are a great answer for someone that’s fine. What mainly drives the score algorithm is how useful the answer was to the person that asked the question, where it came from, not so much.
Thanks so much for asking!