[zackmorris]

As someone who works at SE, would you consider giving a bonus to unanswered questions? Anymore, I've noticed that many of my questions don't receive responses, or if they do, I'm unable to award an answer because they often don't solve the problem. I'm either pushing the envelope too hard, or I'm too fringe and people have trouble seeing what I'm getting at. But just because a question doesn't have an answer doesn't mean it's not important. Quite the contrary, I actually find the unanswered questions the most interesting. I’ve discovered some of the solutions myself days/weeks/months later and posted my own solution, which seems like something that should also have merit.

I feel that my low success rate is hurting my reputation on the site and preventing users from posting answers (I had someone say that my low solution rate deterred him/her from answering but can't find the comment).

The other thing that hurts is that I simply get distracted and never go back to review my questions/award answers. It would be nice if other users could confirm that something works and award the answer for me so I'm not penalized (perhaps by users with a certain rep level, or if a solution gets enough points, or enough time has passed).

I love SE/SO, but maybe someone could confirm that I'm not the only one having these troubles.

[toomuchtodo]

> As someone who works at SE, would you consider giving a bonus to unanswered questions?

Would integrating with BountySource [1] be a possibility?

[1] https://www.bountysource.com/