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> - Now people start asking hard stuff - but engineers (I intentionally do not say developers) who know answers on these questions are not interested in answeri
by CM30 10y ago
> - Now people start asking hard stuff - but engineers (I intentionally do not say developers) who know answers on these questions are not interested in answering.
I suspect part of the reason they're not interested in answering is because a difficult question requires a lot more work to likely get less points as a result. Meanwhile, answering a ton of easy questions can be done quickly and gets more points over on Stack Overflow in the same time frame.
That and yeah, lots of people who could answer your question would rather be doing something that pays the bills or helps them instead.
- gregmac 10y ago> I suspect part of the reason they're not interested in answering is because a difficult question requires a lot more work to likely get less points as a result. I have to admit I have fallen into this myself on both sides. The (now) rare times I browse the site to find questions I can answer, when I run across one like this, its usually by a low rep user, so I think "hmm, I'll spend fifteen or twenty minutes sharing this, get maybe one or two upvotes, and if I'm lucky the original person will accept the answer" and usually deem it not worthwhile. Partly this is because the correct answer is often "don't do it that way, you should do x then you can do z and completely avoid your problem instead" which understandably people don't like to hear.