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> I do, >10k rep on the security.stackexchange.com site That's amazing! Thank you for your contributions. I meant to imply that donating money is usually the l
by subhobroto 10y ago
> I do, >10k rep on the security.stackexchange.com site
That's amazing! Thank you for your contributions. I meant to imply that donating money is usually the least fruitful way to contribute, in my experience. It should be your last resort; definitely not the first one.
Example: One way SO can really gain from your security expertise is for you to think about how anonymous answers can be supported. That will be far more valuable than $$$.
I posted about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12961447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12961447
I would love to read your opinions about this crazy idea!
- Nition 10y agoI have to agree. This happens on forums as well. I've Google searched something before and found people discussing my problem on some random forum. Maybe I know something that might help, but its a hassle to create an account to post. I bet that happens on Stack Overflow too. People who'll never bother to create an account find a page about a problem through Google and they have something valuable they'd add it if didn't prompt them to sign up first. I wonder how much trouble it'd actually cause spam wise.
- brazzledazzle 10y agoI suspect there would be a lot of challenges with it but perhaps letting high rep users validate anonymous contributions would help with the spam. Reveal them only to authenticated users and you remove the incentive for SEO spam.