Why would I pay to have my question downvoted, marked duplicate, etc when I've already done the research? If I don't say the right shibboleths the community on

Why would I pay to have my question downvoted, marked duplicate, etc when I've already done the research? If I don't say the right shibboleths the community on stack overflow will just downvote/mock my question. I don't pay for medium because I don't pay for op-eds, and there's rarely good enough content on medium to justify spending anything for it. Both the services in the examples you gave need ad power because I don't think anyone can justify the cost/benefit analysis of paying some number dollars a month for it. Moreover, we are inundated with subscriptions. In this light, both medium and stack overflow do not provide enough incentive to pay for them. In the case of stack overflow, many times I could just open a desk reference or think a little harder about the problem I'm trying to solve. It's a convenience, and one that isn't needed. Experts exchange had the same problem and we all saw how that went.