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Answer by Mark Byers for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

I was a very high rep user for a few years then practically stopped contributing overnight. Here's why....I am the sort of person that is focused on becoming very good at something. I'll practice every...

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Answer by vartec for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

I'm not sure what your threshold for high reputation is, so not sure if with 52K I'd qualify. But I can explain the reasons why I greatly reduced my activity on SO (not on some of other SE sites...

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Answer by Nicola Peluchetti for Are high-reputation users answering fewer...

i don't know if i can be considered high rep ( 36k now but i actually stopped at 25k more or less ).There are mainly two reason why i stopped/slowed down.1) i know this sounds silly but there was...

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Answer by user3344003 for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

Here's an example of what I described above. I saw the questionhttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/23541653/what-is-funcletWhen I saw it, I said to myself, "I'd really like to know that. I've seen the...

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Answer by thb for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

Dunbar explains it.Stack Overflow has done a masterful job of stretching Dunbar's number, but Dunbar's number is not, and can never be, infinitely elastic.Per-capita social capital always declines once...

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Answer by Rei Miyasaka for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

I stopped asking and answering questions because the moderation here is hostile towards any question that isn't absolutely A+ flawless. Even for an otherwise very good question, any speck of a problem...

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Answer by user3344003 for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

After decades of programming (and writing books on programming), I followed the suggestion to come here. I have tried to contribute in measure to what I have asked. These are my observations from a...

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Answer by Sergey Orshanskiy for Are high-reputation users answering fewer...

I think the StackExchange network is largely responsible for the decline of SO. People got used to asking and answering weird off-topic questions and leading philosophical discussions on SE and carried...

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Answer by Warren Dew for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

The statistics thus far presented don't actually answer the question. Rather, they answer this subtly different question: "Do most high rep users answer fewer and fewer questions?"To answer the...

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Answer by Rachel for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

People change. Lives change.It's hard to keep the same level of involvement in any online community for any extended period of time.To answer your question accurately, you have to ask what is a...

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Answer by demongolem for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

I would like to see high-rep users and when the user signed up separated in such analysis. Is there any difference between high rep users who have been here since the beginning versus high rep users...

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Answer by jalf for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

Probably. I know I'm answering fewer questions than ever.Why? Because these days it feels like the purpose of SO is to exercise our programmers' OCD and categorize, delete, close, edit, rename, retag...

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Answer by Rob Napier for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

I've been actively contributing to SO for about 5 years now. It's interesting that this post just came up, because I'd just noticed how much my participation has dropped of late.For me, like many, I've...

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Answer by hammus for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

I'm Probably the most junior (rep-wise) to answer but as someone who owes so much to this site and genuinely wants to give back but whose primary skillset is PHP I can summarise why I slowed right down...

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Answer by Steve Jessop for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

Obviously this doesn't go back to January 2012, but recently I have been answering few questions on SO largely due to the new cross-advertising of questions from other StackExchange sites.It is much...

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Answer by SW4 for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

It's totally subjective, but my general view would be that the lifecycle of a Stack Exchange user is:New user: Ask questions -> rewarded with answers+knowledgeSeasoned user: Answer questions ->...

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Answer by vsz for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

I guess that high-reputation users are drawn to interesting questions, but interesting questions are buried under the sea of questions which can be solved by reading the first few chapters of a basic...

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Answer by Michael Aaron Safyan for Are high-reputation users answering fewer...

Answering only anecdotally for myself, I can say that yes, I have been a answering fewer questions over time. There are a number of reasons for this:On the rare occasion that there is an interesting...

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Answer by Charlie Martin for Are high-reputation users answering fewer...

Yes. You know why? Because high reputation users keep discovering their popular answers have been on quesitons redefined as off-topic, or not well suited for the question and answer formaty, or...

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Answer by Ben for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

Axiom: The incentive structure is the reification of the will of the organisation.Whatever they say they want, what they really want is what they reward.Observation: On SO asking and answering...

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Answer by user541686 for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

As for me:I've been posting answers more as comments, and less as actual answers. Several reasons:I want to help the OP, so that's why I comment.I'm no longer interested enough in most questions to be...

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Answer by durron597 for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

I'm not a high-rep user, as I never even bothered to get 10k. Why? What am I going to do with the 10k tools? I don't even know what they are, but I'm tired of my effort going unnoticed and...

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Answer by meriton for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

I only have 28k reputation, but if you need a report from the [java] tag:The major reason I rarely answer questions is that I rarely find questions worth answering, because most questions are...

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Answer by gdoron is supporting Monica for Are high-reputation users answering...

Only 56K user here, but I just wanted to say that I agree with what Hans and Aaron wrote.I stopped completely from participating on Stack Overflow, and the reasons are exactly as you guys say. The main...

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Answer by CB Bailey for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

Yes. For any individual there will be multiple reasons.For me, I get more reward from helping the next generation of top answerers for example by commenting and seeing them improve their answer....

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Answer by eddi for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

I'm not sure what qualifies as a high-reputation user, but my contributions have significantly slowed down after I hit ~10k reputation For me a large part of it is due to the incentive structure - the...

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Answer by enderland for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

This is going to be blunt.I recently chose to stop contributing to a site at which I was one of the top-rep users.There are a variety of reasons, but among those relevant here:I don't enjoy being...

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Answer by Hans Passant for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

As a very notable example,BalusCrecently stopped posting. He's an expert in Java server frameworks, aone-man powerhouse of answers. He has posted answers to 27% of allthe questions in the jsf tag,...

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Answer by Alma Do for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

What's going on?I'm not "high-rep. user" and I'm joined not long ago. But it's not necessary to have 50k+ rep. to notice the current situation: the system is working badly - if not to say not...

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Answer by bmargulies for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

As a medium-scale user, I'd say that I look for questions to answer about as much as I ever did, but I find questions worth answering pretty rarely. I spend much more time on janitorial work. My sense...

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Answer by Aaron Bertrand for Are high-reputation users answering fewer...

I can only speak for myself and the tags where I frequent (sql-server). I have almost 114K on SO, but my last answer was on February 6th. And it will be my last answer.Ed.: Well, I didn't quite hold...

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Answer by A. Webb for Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

The data we have available can show if this is happening, but not why it is happening. There are too many factors to consider:Factors internal to Stack Overflow -- policy changes, scale, sentiment,...

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Answer by David Robinson for Are high-reputation users answering fewer...

TL; DRThe number of answers provided by users who currently have >20K reputation has decreased by about 25% since January 2012.About half of those users have slowed or increased their answering...

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Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions?

This recent answer posits that due to a hypothetical decline in "interesting" questions, a large number of high-reputation users have been decreasing their activity on the site, especially in the...

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