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    I guess this would be the appropriate thing to do, especially if the question is a little older. But I often stumble across question that I know the answer to and would like to answer myself, but then I've got a heavy heart doing so if the question is already answered in the comments. Quite often these answers are from people with thousands of points of rep, so they probably should know where to put an answer. It's almost as if they want to give a short and simple answer and don't want to spend time on a (sometimes) more complete real answer, so they just post their thoughts in a comment. Commented Aug 1, 2013 at 14:49
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    As someone who has already given similar comments, I can tell you that I wouldn't care if someone else fleshed out what I hinted at, and reaped the reward. If I were in it for the points, I would have fleshed it out myself. But obviously, I was not in it for the points, but just to give a quick pointer in the right direction (probably just making a wild guess that turns out to have been correct). Most likely, I didn't have the time to flesh it out myself, so whoever puts in the effort to do so is welcome to have the points. Of course, I'll generally oblige to a request to make it an answer... Commented Apr 10, 2014 at 20:44