> There is a market for technical questions that few people _can_ and/or _want_ to answer or work on. You think there is a market. Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwoo

> There is a market for technical questions that few people _can_ and/or _want_ to answer or work on. You think there is a market. Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood discussed this on their podcast back in the early days about making Stack Overflow. They believed that having monetary rewards would create perverse incentives and the psychology of involving money would discourage people from participating - people would balk at $n/answer/vote/whatever thinking it's not worth their time, but would happily spend their free time answering questions for free.