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Even in my day job, I'd happily pay someone $20 who had the experience to clarify some annoying nuance of XYZ framework. Sure, I could keep digging through the
by twistedpair 13y ago
Even in my day job, I'd happily pay someone $20 who had the experience to clarify some annoying nuance of XYZ framework. Sure, I could keep digging through the API docs for another hour to find it, but they could answer it in 15 seconds. I'm certain I could be similarly helpful to others. Why isn't SO doing this yet?
- argonaut 13y agoThe point is that many people who would have otherwise answered your question on SO out of sheer goodwill would not answer questions if paid $20 to answer questions, a motivational phenomenon that has some empirical support in psychology.
- darkmighty 13y agoPsychological altruism bias notwithstanding, I think bounties sure have their place -- perhaps not side-to-side with altruistic ones as to not interfere with them: SO tends to get a lot of attention on interesting questions, and very few otherwise. This leaves an opportunity for low interest, high personal value questions, the dual of SO. There would still be a void for low interest low value questions, but reaching those is asking too much.
- chaz 13y agoCheck out http://www.airpair.com/ http://www.airpair.com/, https://helpouts.google.com https://helpouts.google.com, and https://www.liveninja.com/ https://www.liveninja.com/. I haven't used any of them, but I think potential in this space, especially outside of the tech space.