dardo82 · June 6, 2025 18:24
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 Stack Overflow Alternative Paid

 There is no easy way to make real money by
 answering technical questions online, but it
 would be a good gig; StackOverflow doesn't
 work like I think would be better sometimes.

 If asking costed a bit you would filter out
 malformed, lazy or duplicate questions...
 That same money would attract nerd with
 too much free time and too little cash flow,
 avoiding piling up support requests with no
 replies like in most free tech users forums.

 It could cost $2 to ask a question
 (1 for the site upkeep and 1 to pay
 the answerer),with an extra 1 when
 you get an answer quickly enough.

 Even if you don't want to pay upfront,
 a donation option would keep people
 around knowing that it'll be rewarding
 in the long run to reply to a request…

 Money gets refunded with no answers
 after a year, partially with no accepted
 answer or else it’s given to the helper.
 A scoring system let's everybody know
 who pays well not abusing this system.

 If you want to score the answerer too, you can just copy it from StackOverflow; you'd need to keep it separated from the asker score… That would be based on the number of accepted answers to make sure that work gets rewarded.

 Payment is also a form of commitment to continue 
 a task that you have started, instead of skipping it.

 You should give knowledge or love away
 as freely as you’ve received it,but replying to any random post on the internet,you're probably just wasting your time; people tend get back to what they pay for.

 Askers want cheap fast and custom help
 (answers would be free to read and write),
 answerer are looking for money and ways
 to show off their knowledge and abilities...

 A low ratio between accepted answers
 and asked questions by an user could
 signal hard topics… but if that question
 also has highly voted answers, it’s way
 more probable that the asker isn't nice.
	Stack Overflow Alternative Paid

	There is no easy way to make real money by
	answering technical questions online, but it
	would be a good gig; StackOverflow doesn't
	work like I think would be better sometimes.

	If asking costed a bit you would filter out
	malformed, lazy or duplicate questions...
	That same money would attract nerd with
	too much free time and too little cash flow,
	avoiding piling up support requests with no
	replies like in most free tech users forums.

	It could cost $2 to ask a question
	(1 for the site upkeep and 1 to pay
	the answerer),with an extra 1 when
	you get an answer quickly enough.

	Even if you don't want to pay upfront,
	a donation option would keep people
	around knowing that it'll be rewarding
	in the long run to reply to a request…

	Money gets refunded with no answers
	after a year, partially with no accepted
	answer or else it’s given to the helper.
	A scoring system let's everybody know
	who pays well not abusing this system.

	If you want to score the answerer too, you can just copy it from StackOverflow; you'd need to keep it separated from the asker score… That would be based on the number of accepted answers to make sure that work gets rewarded.

	Payment is also a form of commitment to continue
	a task that you have started, instead of skipping it.

	You should give knowledge or love away
	as freely as you’ve received it,but replying to any random post on the internet,you're probably just wasting your time; people tend get back to what they pay for.

	Askers want cheap fast and custom help
	(answers would be free to read and write),
	answerer are looking for money and ways
	to show off their knowledge and abilities...

	A low ratio between accepted answers
	and asked questions by an user could
	signal hard topics… but if that question
	also has highly voted answers, it’s way
	more probable that the asker isn't nice.