Jon Skeet's post about StackOverflow culture

[metulburr]

That blocked from asking questions thing for new accounts seems backwards to me. You can't ask a question until you have answered some.

Actually you know what that reminds me of is Yahoo answers. I'll often ask a generic question on there because I don't want to go create an account for a forum for one question. But you get points for answering questions and you spend points for asking questions. Needless to say answers are half the time gibberish or a one word answer just to get points