>If you were a regular Wikipedia editor, you'd know there is a ton of resistance among volunteers to directly paying volunteers to contribute. It gets proposed every now and then, but the consensus is that this would short-circuit the motivation and lead to a bunch of people currently on Mechanical Turk flooding in to try and make a bunch of edits to get paid.
Kind of makes me think about the debate on elected officials' salaries (and the ban on Congressional insider trading that never seems to pass)
Kind of makes me think about the debate on elected officials' salaries (and the ban on Congressional insider trading that never seems to pass)