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I was very active during the beta and launch, and was in the top 3 pages by rep for a while, but I became less active just because I didn't have much time. I st
by darrenkopp 15y ago
I was very active during the beta and launch, and was in the top 3 pages by rep for a while, but I became less active just because I didn't have much time. I still go on almost every day, but i just look at the featured questions on front page and maybe will answer one if it's something I know, but usually don't.
Most of my reputation points come from residual answers.
- donw 15y agoI'm in a similar boat. When they first got out of the gate, I answered a whole bucket of questions, but stopped after about six months when I launched my first startup. Nowadays, the number of unanswered questions on the site is pretty low overall -- we're basically in the long tail of Stack Overflow karma.
- dpark 15y agoDitto, although I cut back my participation mostly because SO turned into a frustrating experience. It's not rewarding to type out a good answer only to be beaten by a bunch of half-assed answers that appeared first. Nor is it rewarding to type out a detailed answer only to have someone come along 5 minutes later post basically the same thing (including stealing the code example) and get chosen as the selected answer. Add to that the deletionist moderation ("Oh, this post from 2008 should have been on SuperUser instead so we'll just delete it") and a number of other issues. At this point, I generally find participation in SO significantly more frustrating than rewarding. I still get about +30 rep per day, but almost all of that is from two answers that date to the very early days of SO.