I've had a similar experience. I've gotten a tremendous amount of help from StackOverflow, so I tried to contribute by answering questions. It took so much ef

I've had a similar experience. I've gotten a tremendous amount of help from StackOverflow, so I tried to contribute by answering questions. It took so much effort that I gave up. I seemed to be caught in a catch-22 where I didn't have enough reputation points to answer. So I treat it as basically "read-only" now.