> From a comment:
> With the size of the user base then there's always a good chance that someone will come by looking to pluck low-hanging fruit and I'll get my answer. So that's the problem you have to fix: remove all incentives for *answers* to bad questions. If a question is bad, an answerer should get *no reputation* from it. Then the only incentive for answering is the one to help someone out, and as an answerer I know that I'd rather help someone who shows some investment in the question. Then as a questioner, if I see all these other questions getting answers but mine doesn't, I hav…