You put it quite eloquently: >"...The answers I invested hours in remain relatively untouched; but the main value for me comes from learning by answering quest

You put it quite eloquently: >"...The answers I invested hours in remain relatively untouched; but the main value for me comes from learning by answering questions..." More than anything else, that's what keeps me coming back to stackoverflow. Most of the questions I've spent the most time on get little attention, but I learned quite a lot from answering them.