Setting aside what's best content, let's look at the questions you describe.

These questions are complex; they can't be answered with a simple Wikipedia search, because they require a detailed analysis of the text. Given the quality of these questions, and how much effort goes into writing them, you would think that they would get a lot of attention.

Those questions also require a lot of effort to answer them. The first few days of beta a flurry, everyone is rushing to vote on everything, post everywhere first and get to the rep cap and hunt those badges.¹ Just look at those 14 Vox Populi badges.

Anyways we have around sixty users who asked an upvoted question yet, forty with an upvoted answer, there's a bit of overlap surely and we only have a user total of 250 users. So there's basically two possibilities. Either of those 250 users simply no one knows the answer or of the really active users hadn't had the time yet to post an answer or look one up.

In the latter case this will resolve itself, since the initial flurry will ebb and then the active answerers will look to the unanswered stuff—or find time over the weekend maybe.

In the former case we won't get answer without recruiting outside experts. While we are in private beta, everyone can join either by email invite or by detouring over Area 51.

Getting experts to join is a valid and much needed contribution to a private beta. As you already said, if we want a site that's not just about reading orders and lmgtfy questions we need expert content. That content stems from experts. That's the chicken-and-egg problem of every private beta. Experts are attracted by expert content, but we need experts to create expert content.

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Setting aside what's best content, let's look at the questions you describe.

These questions are complex; they can't be answered with a simple Wikipedia search, because they require a detailed analysis of the text. Given the quality of these questions, and how much effort goes into writing them, you would think that they would get a lot of attention.

Those questions also require a lot of effort to answer them. The first few days of beta a flurry, everyone is rushing to vote on everything, post everywhere first and get to the rep cap and hunt those badges.¹ Just look at those 14 Vox Populi badges.

Anyways we have around sixty users who asked an upvoted question yet, forty with an upvoted answer, there's a bit of overlap surely and we only have a user total of 250 users. So there's basically two possibilities. Either of those 250 users simply no one knows the answer or of the really active users no one has had the time yet to post an answer or look one up.

In the latter case this will resolve itself, since the initial flurry will ebb and then the active answerers will look to the unanswered stuff—or find time over the weekend maybe.

In the former case we won't get answer without recruiting outside experts. While we are in private beta, everyone can join either by email invite or by detouring over Area 51.

Getting experts to join is a valid and much needed contribution to a private beta. As you already said, if we want a site that's not just about reading orders and lmgtfy questions we need expert content. That content stems from experts. That's the chicken-and-egg problem of every private beta. Experts are attracted by expert content, but we need experts to create expert content.

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