> Why don't they introduce a system where you can say, I need this answer for 5 bucks.
I think the problem with that is how do you prove it's a good or bad answer? Say you offer a bounty and I generate a great answer. You look at the answer and use it and then flag the answer as bad so you don't have to pay.
Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow
by lofaszvanitt on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:55PM
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Then you will have that next to your profile. Non paying customer...
Someone reading your profile will have to parse whether the not-paid answer actually answered the question, before they can determine whether it's a "non-paying customer" or just someone refusing to pay for an irrelevant non-answer.
Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow
by lofaszvanitt on Thursday July 27, 2023 @07:16PM
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You can show something akin to ebay's reliability value based on user feedback. People can establish payment conditions before doing any task, I don't think that would be a problem.
So I can't add relevant info/feedback to a topic I landed on via google, because I don't have reputation, so in essence the site strangles itself. Because in 2023 I'm not going to farm(!) 50 points just to share my info. All this because a few bad apples tried to game a system and someone came up with this lame idiocy of you must have X reputation...
But you can ask questions.
But if noone upvotes your answer because it's a hard one, and/or noone knows the reply to your problem, then you are stuck. So should you ask some blatant question, like, is the sky blue and why? But it will be a duplicate. No reps for you. So it's a totally braindead system, they deserve to die.
Why don't they introduce a system where you can say, I need this answer for 5 bucks. But that will not be implemented, because it would make a dangerous precedent where you could harness other's valuable knowledge in almost an instant.