Comment by ChrisMarshallNY

> I suppose one of the reason why people keep answering is to harvest points

It's interesting to see some of the top (5- or 6-digit SO scores) people's activity charts.

They usually have a 3-5-digit answer history, and a 1-digit question history, with the digit frequently being "0."

In my case, I have asked almost twice as many questions, as I have given answers[0].

For a long time, I had a very low SO score (I've been on the platform for many years), but some years ago, they decided to award questions the same score as answers (which pissed a lot of people off), and my score suddenly jumped up. It's still not a top score, but it's a bit less shabby.

Over the years, I did learn to ask questions well (which means they get ignored, as opposed to insulted -an improvement), but these days, I don't bother going there, anymore.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/users/879365/chris-marshall