The old SCN was not as fancy as the new one, but it was a living community. When you posted a question you got several answers and solutions within 24 hours.
I guess one of the main motivations where the badges. It was a Gamification gimmick, but it worked. People were motivated to answer questions and to contribute.
I heard that the main reasons on why the badges were removed was because some people cheated. But SAP shouldn't have punished the entire community by removing them. People put a lot of effort into those badges. It may sound silly, but it was like that. It's like if you would delete all the game scores off all gamers, because some have cheated. No one would like to play your game anymore.
Now when you post a question only about 10 - 20 people are looking at it.
Look at this question for example:
https://answers.sap.com/questions/136436/restricted-role-in-sap-hana.html?childToView=137652#answer-...
Posted on February 22nd and only 22 people looked at it. It's a question about HANA roles many HANA experts could easily answer. I'm also looking forward to the answer of this questions. But no one cares anymore. All the experts have been cased away.
Please SAP you have to do something to motivate the community again to contribute.
The Karma thing is not really a help.
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