Timeline for What's the single biggest barrier to entry on Stack Overflow?
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| Jul 11, 2009 at 15:09 | comment | added | Brad Gilbert | Most of the problematic questions were asked by new to SO, and new to English users. | |
| Jul 11, 2009 at 14:07 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | If your question is well written and interesting (at least to some subset of people) it won't be ignored. Reputation score of the asker is not that relevant, since answers generate the most rep, and you don't need the asker to achieve votes from your peers. Unfortunately, a lot of low-rep users are not very good askers. I've seen edits save some of these questions, though. | |
| Jul 10, 2009 at 1:44 | comment | added | Kip | RE #1: i can't speak for everyone, but i personally never consider or even notice the asker's rep when deciding to answer a question. i will say that being able to ask a question well comes with practice for many people. a lot of people, especially those with 1 rep, don't give near enough details. it takes a lot of patience for someone to go through the back and forth to find out what the real problem is (which is usually not what the asker thought it was). but i don't think many people are intentionally avoiding low-rep users (maybe i'm wrong?) | |
| Jul 9, 2009 at 22:08 | history | answered | user102937 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |