Take a look at
Slide 11 of this research output that was (obviously) intended to be delivered orally by the presenter, Judd Antin. Antin is a research scientist in the Internet Experiences Group at Yahoo! Research.
QUOTE
"Do you think Wikipedia would be different if people got paid?"
"Oh yeah, I think there'd be a lot of bullshit in there. I think people would just throw a lot of stuff in there thinking, 'I'm getting paid so it really doesn't matter what I'm putting down!' [The way it is now] I think people really put their heart and soul into it because they like doing it."
Where do these crazy notions come from?
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