The OP did not post the bounty, it was an interested reader. The OP (and also the bounty poster) have been engaged in the discussion threads with examples of effort and pursuit of the ideas offered.
SO does get used/abused as you describe sometimes. I'm mostly OK with that. If the poster can find someone interested enough in their problem (or in demonstrating knowledge thereof) then who can complain, really? Everyone is on SO for a reason, after all.
In this case, even if the OP was the typical Homework Solution Seeker, the responses would be valuable to others, sometime and somewhere -- though they would be hard to make discoverable without a few important search keywords.
The OP did not post the bounty, it was an interested reader. The OP (and also the bounty poster) have been engaged in the discussion threads with examples of effort and pursuit of the ideas offered.
SO does get used/abused as you describe sometimes. I'm mostly OK with that. If the poster can find someone interested enough in their problem (or in demonstrating knowledge thereof) then who can complain, really? Everyone is on SO for a reason, after all.
In this case, even if the OP was the typical Homework Solution Seeker, the responses would be valuable to others, sometime and somewhere -- though they would be hard to make discoverable without a few important search keywords.