| Do top contributors get compensated financially ?
This is a question that is burning me out of curiosity... Do not get me wrong, I understand the whole point of
giving back to a community, selfishly helping others
and all that. But lets get a simple example: For example
the famous Jon Skeet.
https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet Based on the account statistics this user is a member
as of today, for 12 years and 8 months.
So a total of 152 months.
Again according to the site statistics, Jon Skeet
provided so far 35,254 answers. Making some assumptions of continuous linear work, :-) this user in the last almost 13 years, provided an average of 232
answers PER MONTH,non-stop for the last 13 years. That is an average of almost 8 answers PER DAY non stop,
13 years in row, while having a job at Google ( per the
site account details ...) maybe a family, side interests ? etc ... Assuming the mythical Jon Skeet, is not a team of 200 engineers at Google :-) I want to understand how a
person who provides EIGHT well researched developer
related answers PER DAY, non stop, for 13 years,
feels about the site founders making 2 Billion while this user ( again...presumably...) gets a pat in the back and
"reputation " ? |
Not from Stack Overflow / Stack Exchnage
That's for sure
There may be employers that look at your standing and say, "hey - let's toss a couple extra $K in this candidate's offer"
..but I've not seen or experienced it