It is though, because they gamed search engines well enough to frequently be in the top results yet never had an answer you could see. Annoying as fuck
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stoy@lemmy.zip 4 months agoI wouldn’t call it scummy, just bad business, give people one premium answer per week, so they know the quallity and at incentivised to pay.
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 months ago
ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Do they pay the people who answer the questions? I genuinely don’t know. But if they don’t then, yes, it is scummy to just profit off of someone else’s work and not pay them.
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ve contributed to sites like Wikipedia.
Not everything needs to be measured in money though. There’s inherent satisfaction in the work with things like this. And at the end of the day, we all benefit from having platforms with accurate, well thought out answers. Today you’re answering, tomorrow you’re the one with the question.
tnuctip@mastodonapp.uk 4 months ago
@FinishingDutch @ahornsirup
But Wikipedia aren't charging people to see the work you contributed for free. That's a significant difference.
ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Wikipedia is run by a nonprofit. They don’t monetise volunteer contributions and they don’t paywall the knowledge on their site, they run on donations. It’s not really a comparable situation.