Here's a question. The premise of Stack Overflow is for questioners to come and get their questions answered by experts. This works great for the questioner, but as I am hardly the first to notice, has a slight gap where the expert is concerned. Why would the expert come and answer questions on the site?
Now, there are some reasons which don't need to be dealt with explicitly. Things like being social with your fellow experts, or maybe you'll come across a question dealing with something you've not seen before, or maybe you just feel really, really hot about your favourite language/technology and feel a compulsion to come and help people out using it or maybe you just like your fellow man.
The trouble with this is when you don't feel like it. Maybe you had a row with another guy in the chat or maybe Jeff did something again or maybe you got repeatedly anonymously downvoted or maybe you saw Eric Lippert get 1,200 upvotes for frankly, a medium answer to a medium question. And you stop going there, just for a short time, and then you ask yourself- what am I really missing here?
And now you have all this free time that you previously wasted to work, or sleep, or play games or have sex with your wife or whatever you want to spend it doing, and you ask yourself- why go back?
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