Answering questions is a very good way to test your own knowledge and learn a lot more about a subject. The sorts of questions people ask often fall outside your experience and expose you to things you've never thought to consider.

If this is the product of "someone with a lot of free time", then maybe we should abandon free open-source software in general. What a waste of time!

Well it certainly could do that. If it does, I can always chalk it up to sour grapes. But I think I have a good answer to that, if I encounter it in question form.

I also go to a lot of tech meetups and give tech talks. I'm ten-years married with no kids. I can spend my time how I choose. Only I have something to show for all of my evenings over people who only play games or read click-bait. I want children, eventually, but I'm not ready yet. I'd also like another graduate degree, and I'd like even more experiences in finance, as now I've only been a financial advisor and worked in risk data and architecture.

I had over 150 answers on tax and retirement planning on all-experts.com with strong ratings, and they've deleted that material because it's out of date, and now I just have a line on my old resume (it's not even in my current one). I like that much of my material will not be dated as quickly on Stackoverflow.

If he's using his time to benefit the python community, that's hardly a negative.

>It may even be a negative, as it paints you as someone with a lot of free time.

Then what does 'Contributes a lot to open source' say or 'Knows several programming languages'? Because people often like those and yet it requires as much free time as answering SO questions.

> paints you as someone with a lot of free time

I hate that this is considered a negative.