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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by dugmartin on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:18AM (#36862620)
> 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.

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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by lofaszvanitt on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:55PM (#36887393)
Then you will have that next to your profile. Non paying customer...
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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by Qwertious on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:22PM (#36888104)
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.
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Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow by lofaszvanitt on Thursday July 27, 2023 @07:16PM (#36901347)
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.
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