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*Chicken, meet egg.*

In many cases, the askers are much less expert than the answerers. The experts are the ones creating this site - not exclusively, but in many cases, and not necessarily academic or professional experts but sometimes just by virtue of having hung out SomeplaceElse for years and gaining experience. These askers don't seek us out. They Google to find some answers to their questions. If they don't find their specific question (and answers to it), they go to the sites that list *other* similar questions and answers and ask on those sites. Until we have lots of quality content, we are not one of those sites. We'll get there, but it takes time. On the other hand, the answerers who are already here don't have so many questions to ask, so we don't get questions from them either.

In short, we need content to get askers, but we need askers to get content. We tried, largely unsuccessfully, to build that initial content by copying from StackExchange, as permitted by the content licenses. However, that did not have the hoped for effects, for various reasons largely beyond our control. Every existing Q&A site (and almost any site actually, except if created by/for a major bricks & mortar company) goes through this process. The big question is: How can we can accelerate the process to get to "big enough to be seen by the askers"?