I still like to help people regardless of if it will directly benefit me. It was just a nice perk. Although, since they made all of these controversial changes

I still like to help people regardless of if it will directly benefit me. It was just a nice perk. Although, since they made all of these controversial changes, it feels less like helping people and more like doing free work for a random company. The real killer for me was limiting the data dumps to paying customers. They really let down the community who trusted SO would be a trustworthy steward of the data. The charm of the site is gone.