[karmawhore]

With few exceptions, the midrange karma scored ServerFault users eschew more misinformation or guesswork than fact. One poster necroed a thread that was 13 months old and posted information that hasn't been true since the early days of Mysql 4.x. I debated whether it was worth correcting the post.

The barrier to entry should be karma < 50 or karma > 9000. Oddly, StackOverflow's userbase is considerably more accurate, but, the median range karma scored user generally has been upvoted and given points that don't correspond to skill or knowledge, but, answers posted by those higher karma users, correct or not are valued more highly.

Once someone figures out how to get people to answer accurately without having to receive the +1 carrot, then you'll have a community worth contributing to. Right now, all you need to do on SF/SO is answer first, answer often and use technical jargon.