Why can't people follow the basic rules of this site and pay for answers?
you ask questions, you need answers that are usually quite technical, so they have a value...
Even I will pay for this question even if I don't really need answer... because it is the very little respect !
thanks again for the first person i answered to, that payed me $10 for the research i did for him, spending effectively 1/2h of my time to help him.
if you need answer, give a price to your question. and stop testing kids questions with a reward of $200, you only get ridiculous.
and now, the guy that answer the best my first question (on top) will be paid :D
People succeed in answering funfox's questions 100% of the time (1 success in 1 attempt).
Answers by: Phil Thomas
The answer is easy. Questions do have a value here, but what you are willing to pay is just that. The site ALLOWS you to assign a value of 0. Therefore the site was designed to ask free questions. See the whole concept is SUPPLY and DEMAND. If you have all the answers to all the questions I need I might be willing to pay. I set a maximum price of how much that question is worth to me. If however I ask a question that I really do not see paying for I can set a price of zero, you however on the other hand may think "My information is not worth zero, and therefore elect not to answer my question. That is the perfect situation of this site. I am one of those people that think that information should be free and if I can help someone with my knowledge simply by typing a few lines -- I should do that -- for free. You don't have to think the same way I do. Therefore you can elect to only ask and answer questions that have a monetary value.
That is the best way that I can describe it.