This could motivate me to spend minutes or hours answering a question, but I think it would be insufficient to motivate me to spend weeks or months. Maybe if there was an option to also submit my question answer as a regular post.
I do think that when you’re tackling something that’ll take weeks or months, it’s quite likely you’ll end up with multiple posts worth of content. In that case I think the “Answer” part would look more like linking to a separate post (or sequence) and summarizing it, than writing the whole thing in the answer section.
(I’ve also been thinking about having high-quality answers getting displayed as part of the question’s post item, so rather than the “primary author” being the person who asked the question, the top answer author is given prominent billing)
This could motivate me to spend minutes or hours answering a question, but I think it would be insufficient to motivate me to spend weeks or months. Maybe if there was an option to also submit my question answer as a regular post.
I do think that when you’re tackling something that’ll take weeks or months, it’s quite likely you’ll end up with multiple posts worth of content. In that case I think the “Answer” part would look more like linking to a separate post (or sequence) and summarizing it, than writing the whole thing in the answer section.
(I’ve also been thinking about having high-quality answers getting displayed as part of the question’s post item, so rather than the “primary author” being the person who asked the question, the top answer author is given prominent billing)