Timeline for Why can't you exchange points for dollars on Stack Exchange?
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Feb 3, 2017 at 17:08 | comment | added | user350459 | You raise a good point about intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation.. I actually was thinking about this when I was posting the question.. but didnt include in my OP.. however I think both extrinsic and intrinsic motivations need to coexist. A high-flying programmer is not going to go work at Google while getting paid nothing, just because he gets to work on some fancy project full time. | |
| Feb 3, 2017 at 17:05 | comment | added | user350459 | Similar to why you take Uber and not buy a car with a driver.. because you only need it for a very short period of time. Its much more expensive to buy a car or hire a full time programmer. | |
| Feb 3, 2017 at 17:05 | comment | added | user350459 | To answer your question "Users who want their question answered? If you want to have someone fix your code, why not hire someone?".. Stackoverflow and stackexchange and Superuser is much broader than somebody who is looking for advice for code. The idea behind this is collaborative consumption is to share ideas/assets/time when you dont need it.. but I think people would still want to get paid for it. In this case you dont want to hire a fulltime person to answer the small question you have about your code/answer about 3D printing.. | |
| Feb 3, 2017 at 16:52 | comment | added | user350459 | Using money as a medium to buy points, lets users who are new/dont have sufficient points to do so. This money is then pooled together and can be used to pay the expert user (with high points) with real dollars, if he chooses to. | |
| Feb 3, 2017 at 16:52 | comment | added | user350459 | To answer you question where does money come from.. Good questions.. the easiest way to do this is to allow users buy points (not to add to their reputation but to put up bounties). If they need an answer to a question urgently, but perhaps dont have enough points to put up a sufficiently high bounty to attract a expert user to answer a detailed question, there is no way for the user to do so. | |
| Feb 3, 2017 at 15:08 | history | answered | Patrick Hofman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |