How true is the perception that except some, most of the women people on Quora get followers because of their display pictures and not the content they write?

For most of the kind of people that you have mentioned, Quora is just another social networking site like facebook and we all know what a certain group of people(mostly men) intend to use facebook for... [FRAANDSHIP WITH GIRLS( preferably beautiful ones)]

Short Answer : Partially true. Explanation : That is the risk you run when you move from pure QnA experience to a more social networking flavoured website. When you link your website with twitter and Facebook and actively ask people to link these profiles, there are chances of trolls getting in the system, that is the risk, Quora took, and will have issues due to it. There are various types of people, I have observed that behaviour around this site too, although that percentage is less, certainly there are people who follow someone based on their looks, pics with possible hopes of certain futures. The day I saw this trend, I stopped seeing how many followers a person has and actively sought the content posted by anyone before following that person. I am interested in the content on the site, and not always the people who give that content. Thankfully Quora notification system has not started notifying when someone you follow writes an answer or not. We do get notified on the questions we follow and that is the essence. That is where the platform is pushing you. All sorts of people exist around us, its our responsibility to filter out to get what we are really interested in. Having said that, here is how we proceed from here. I urge you to follow the content and not the people who dish it out. At times people and their profession matter to ascertain credibility of the answers, but times like this we generally make the right decision. I have not found people who change the profile pics to be in limelight, if there are such they are clearly on the wrong platform. To understand the psyche of people who follow someone based on profile picture, it would need a different question.

I would like to answer this question from my perspective and hence wouldn't extend the conclusions/arguments to any general group (though I suspect that they may pretty much be the same for most quorans). Firstly, I would like to question the premise of the question. I never knew of the said perception that you are talking about. Never have I ever come across such perceptions of female quorans, nor has it ever crossed my mind for a moment that the (number of) followers of a girl may somehow correlate to her profile pic or her general beauty in the "eyes of the society." I am on quora and, in general, it is quite an intellectually stimulating society where the official norm is to share information/ideas. Though I wouldn't for once insist that I haven't given preference in becoming friends with the "cool girls" around facebook, my motivation here is primarily to quench my thirst for some new tidbits of information. It is hardly relevant for me in this context to be influenced by any motivation to potentially 'date' someone. Most of the times the gender of the said person never even lingers for a moment while appreciating the quality of the answer. A quick check of my profile and the people I'm following gives 18 and 6 as the number of men and women respectively, i.e. men are thrice more in number than women! It is something weird and could in fact be used to argue an opposite trend (assuming the number of men and women on quora are equal ofcourse, which is a far-fetched assumption to make). I never once followed a person because of his/her/something-else gender. Now your assertion could still be true because facebook is getting intertwined with quora, but I suspect that any regular quoran comes here for anything but some interesting trivia and getting to know things. Now I wouldn't like to question the integrity of the questioner, I would indeed like to urge you to drop such notion and relish the rich environment of quora and, needless to say, help nurture it. I think a girl can get, and rightly so, deeply annoyed and hurt to come across such claims. Even if due to some dynamic a girl was likely to get 1.1 times the followers of a boy, it wouldn't matter, atleast for me, because the main motivation is to enrich yourselves.