In the formative years of StackOverflow, Joel and Jeff took huge pains to structure the service in such a way that there wasn't a time/money equivalency to participating.
Mostly this took the form of outward public recognition (scores, badges, etc.) and incentives aligned around that. If there's a path forward for Bugrex I think it's probably along those lines.
I really dislike how Slack is starting to dominate in the Q&A space for specific projects/libraries, b/c it does the entire dev community a disservice to hide knowledge into a myriad of little silos that Google doesn't index.
Long way of saying it would be awesome if BugRex had a searchable/spiderable archive.
There always is, they just choose to pay in terms of company scrip. And they can -- and have -- arbitrarily remove karma from the system. It's great for them, because they convert user time into dollars for StackOverflow.
Any thoughts on that?
The parent is right, your value is in the questions already answered, and this would also avoid mentors getting bored of the same question.
Another potential thing to set you apart is to somehow find a better moderation system than SO.