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Discussion on: What a very bad day at work taught me about building Stack Overflow’s community

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Veky

I don't really participate in the site to answer questions because it's too hard to earn rep as a new user.

If you really want to answer questions only to get points, yes. But ask yourself whether that's really the case.

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William Antonelli

So it's too difficult to accrue the points required to post an answer because I only want to answer the questions to earn points?

Red pill or blue pill?

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Veky

I'm sorry, I obviously misread your comment. I really didn't know you need to have points in order to answer questions on SO. I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case when I started there. And it doesn't make much sense to me... how are you supposed to get the points? By writing insightful comments? :-/

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🦄N B🛡

Ask sensible questions. The goal of the site isn't for the askers.

It's not for the answerers.

It's for someone else.