@mootinator The problem with that proposal is that it's hard to tell whether people are actually taking it seriously, or whether they're just taking it seriously ironically.
> I’ve had this problem with Stackoverflow for awhile now: It seems everytime I ask a question I get an answer later and later. It’ been particularly bad recently as I don’t get any answers for my questions unless I add a bonus. I knew this was coming.
I've been reading an article which was posted on HN. The writer claims that the only incentive to answer questions was rep. But after reading the answers in What's the incentive to answer questions? I've been wondering on how to make users answer harder questions.
What other incentives cou...
There's a new "things are worse than they were in the old days" post every week. If they were all true, the place would look worse than Y! Answers by now.
Not to mention the fact that people are still coming in and being impressed.
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No idea where to ask this so I'll post it here. I've been told not to chat in comments. I've tried to see the reasoning behind this, I've complained about it, and now this. stackoverflow.com/questions/7373199/code-signing-in-xcode
Its a nice question, and the answer, marked correct, is 100000% useless because people went to chat rather than use the comments.
but I agree, they handled it incorrectly. What should have been done is that the OP/Answerer should have ensured that the answer indicated what the resolution was.
I've been reading an article which was posted on HN. The writer claims that the only incentive to answer questions was rep. But after reading the answers in What's the incentive to answer questions? I've been wondering on how to make users answer harder questions.
What other incentives cou...
