Points for the first and second answerer

Question

How would it be if the first and second user who answers a question would gain reputation for being one of the first volunteers?

Why implement this feature?

It can be a reward for loyal people,for those who answer a lot especially.For a reason which I will present below,it can be quite pleasant to see that spending so much time on the site is finally appreciated.This can also be a feature for new,decent users who wish to gain points.It would be fun to race against others,too.I will explain some more.

Since EE.SE's purpose is to be a good archive of questions and answers,I have figured out that certain restriction must be part of my request.Otherwise,the message would be that the quality of the post doesn't matter,only your speed does.I propose two ways:

1st way

In order to receive the rewards,the question should have at least 3 upvotes and the answer should have at least 2 upvotes.Only after these conditions are met will the users receive their rep:+6 for the first and +3 for the second.

By arranging it so users will still have to their best.A rather poor question will probably not have more than 1-2 answers,but those with votes are more likely to have more.

2nd way

The question should have at least 5 upvotes and the answer should have at least 3 upvotes.The rewarded points are the same.

I'd go for more rewarded reputation,but I want to hear some opinions instead.In the very unlikely case that the users answer simultaneously,the will get +4,regardless of the fact that they are the first or the second.The qualitative posters,active people will have another advantage.

Answer 1

If anything, we have the reverse problem. Twice in just the last few days, I saw a question with only one mediocre answer, wrote a good answer, and discovered that the OP had accepted the mediocre answer while I was writing mine. In both cases, that was less than one hour after the question was asked.

We want quality, not speed.

Quality comes in part from having lots of competing answers. Your system will discourange answers after the second, because it will be more fuitful to spend time on questions that only have 0 or 1 answer. You may think of your system as encouraging fast answers, but it likeways discourages additional answers.

Who answers first also has a lot to do with what time it was around the world when the question was posted, or when someone happened to have a break and checked the site. Neither of those are related to quality, and often there is little that answerers realistically (assuming they have jobs) can do about it.

If you want to incentivize better answers, don't allow OPs to accept one until either 24 hours have passed or there are at least 3 answers.

Answer 2

Speed is not what I would like to see in answers.

Way too many people already jump on new questions with badly worded, half explained answers that contain the truthful core of an answer, but none of the why or how. Maybe because they don't feel like the why or how and feel an answer is better than none, but at least some very clearly also for the quick up-vote and the hasty-accepter. Throwing more points that way will do nothing for quality.

This hasty answering then drives me away from such questions, because I do put my hour, two hours, some in the past even 5+ hours of explaining, maths and drawings in and I don't want to be the 12th, answering after everyone following the question has already picked two of:

"Just remove the second transistor, oh hey, I met minimum char count, lol.".

After putting aside dozens of other questions to focus on this one I really like, or worse - which happens to me by accident as well - find that I spent a lot of time doing it right that I should have done billable work, to then see the answer disappear in the drags, because dozens of people at the same time posted the one-liners that get followed by 18 comments for clarification and mine got lost in the storm.