Good creative content is difficult to incentivise for.<p>Case in point:  SO incentivises for it <i>without payment</i>.  Largely through providing an &quot;interesting things to work on&quot; dynamic, with rapid review and improvement of naff responses.<p>But answers to technical problems (many quite trivial) are a different class than, say, deep investigative reporting, or solving really hard technical problems.<p>On that last, there&#x27;s an essay written a few years back on how the current iteration of the Internet seems to incentivise for trivial things, featured on HN.  I&#x27;ll see if I can&#x27;t track it down.<p>(See what you just incentivised me to do there?)