[meddlin]

With such a stark barrier to entry, why would I spend much time on there? Also, at the beginning of my career I got much more value from "explaining articles", and much less from ultra-specific answers.

Later on when I had more experience, I wanted to give back:

- try to answer -> "you need cred"

- okay, upvote -> "you need cred"

- try to comment -> "you need cred"

- Ask a question -> "Duplicate. You should RT(Free)M we built."

[hans_castorp]

I never understood why it's allowed to post a question (even without an account), but not allowed to add a comment.

[isbvhodnvemrwvn]

Comments are not searchable and difficult to moderate. A lot of people asked follow up questions in comments.