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What motivates you to answer questions posted online?

23 Nov 2009 to 29 Nov 2009

Text entry answers for sorted by frequency of occurrance. What is it that drives you to answer questions online?

(5) CListCtrl
(2) Interesting questions/problems
(1) It keeps my problem-solving skills up
(1) It's related to one of my projects/articles
(1) jsp
(1) Just to compare my answers with results
(1) Learn by answering questions
(1) Learning the answer
(1) Nothing
(1) Only if I think it needs answering
(1) People say I'd enjoy teaching
(1) Something to do
(1) Teaching also helps me learn by forcing me to be specific
(1) to check the answer stats
(1) To demonstrate my superior abilities.
(1) To have the ability to learn by trying to answer something
(1) To increase the average intelligence of CP users
(1) To Influence.
(1) To learn by sharing what you know!
(1) Trolling
(1) Want to see how others answered
(1) when just get bored
(1) You want to show everyone else how smart you are
(1) csharppolygontriangulation
(1) Discourage bad programming practices before they come back to bite me (again)
(1) dsvsdvsdv
(1) fdasdfasdfasdfasdf
(1) For all the paparazzi
(1) helping technically is like learning twice
(1) I can
(1) I know an answer, that worked for me, that still works, and could not be found anywhere else
(1) I know that answer and I struggled to find it
(1) I know the answer and I'm already subscribed to that forum
(1) I like to see how many questions have a set of answers which are so limited that the question is meaningless
(1) I like to see poll results, so I participate to do my part
(1) If I find the question interesting
(1) If I have the answer
(1) I'm a masochist. I like voting and then finding out that nothing happens !!!
(1) interesting question, interested in cumulative response
(1) Because they necessitate the application of judicious empiricism
(1) Boredom
(1) By answering questions and reviewing replies there is always a chance to gain more knowledge about the subject in question.