> but I think that a good enough feedback mechanism could over-come this, and sites such as Stackoverflow have implemented feedback mechanisms that could work

> but I think that a good enough feedback mechanism could over-come this, and sites such as Stackoverflow have implemented feedback mechanisms that could work But people are on SO out of a desire to help other people, and SO specifically encourages general problems - so saying "that's not possible" is the right answer to the syllables problem instead of some messy thrown together code that doesn't actually work. By introducing the financial reward system, this goes out the window. I get nothing out of commenting on bounties, explaining why answers are wrong or requests impossible because I'm not contributing to a community of being helpful to future people running into a problem. > IMO, the 'right' solution is for libraries to be more easily broken in to pieces while simultaneously easier to use together Sounds good, but that's not how software development works. The cognitive skills required to break down a problem into such pieces is significantly higher that those required to write code that performs the task.