Yeah, I agree - but taking an active part of a community should be enough to drive most people to at least want to contribute to that community. I have no problem with people that get their answers on SO (or anywhere else, for that matter) from reading other peoples posts - I've been doing that for a while before actually starting to participate - but usually, Help vampires are the ones that asks trivial questions that can most likely be solved using a simple search, and usually sign off their questions with stuff like "Please help ASAP!!!" - this is absolutely not the kind of participants I would want to encourage in any community.
no matter what, some people always be a consumer. But I agree you SO should push people to answer more
Yeah, I agree - but taking an active part of a community should be enough to drive most people to at least want to contribute to that community. I have no problem with people that get their answers on SO (or anywhere else, for that matter) from reading other peoples posts - I've been doing that for a while before actually starting to participate - but usually, Help vampires are the ones that asks trivial questions that can most likely be solved using a simple search, and usually sign off their questions with stuff like "Please help ASAP!!!" - this is absolutely not the kind of participants I would want to encourage in any community.
True. 😀