<p>My own experience is that I've posted a lot of answer recently and get very little rep for them. This is fine if the answers aren't top quality, but I have no indication either way (no up-votes, no down-votes, no comments).</p>

<p>My observation is that the site isn't really doing <em>anything</em>. For example, see all the questions with bounties raised due to lack of attention. So, when a small number of super-users do post answers, they are either the only answers on the site, or people just read the rep and up-vote.</p>
