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Does Google pay you to moderate? What is the user incentive to commit hours of time to a 3rd party commercial enterprise?
by optimiz3 8y ago
Does Google pay you to moderate? What is the user incentive to commit hours of time to a 3rd party commercial enterprise?
- darpa_escapee 8y agoNo, Google doesn't pay you when you do work for them as a "Local Guide". That means that there is little incentive to stop people who are paid by entities that have vested interest in manipulating Google Maps information.
- superflyguy 8y agoStack overflow is pretty popular. Although their recent attempt to "be nice to new users" (which wasn't necessary before, and coincides with the quality of answers rapidly approaching that of Quota) suggests that this won't last forever.
- mehrdadn 8y ago> coincides with the quality of answers rapidly approaching that of Quota Do you perceive Quora to have higher or lower quality answers? I'm having trouble parsing what you meant to say.
- johnsimer 8y agoPretty sure s/he means lower
- baroffoos 8y agoStackoverflow data is free for anyone to download and reuse. Gmaps is a proprietary dataset. Helping people on SO also feels a lot less like working for a tech megacorp for free.
- Avamander 8y ago> (which wasn't necessary before, and coincides with the quality of answers rapidly approaching that of Quota) It was absolutely necessary. It isn't a "meme" that SO community has hostile users. I hand out a lot of votes when browsing SO because so f many people don't really deserve the downvotes.
- dawnerd 8y agoNo, it's part of the local guides program they run. They'll show you pending edits and you just approve or decline. I don't spent too much time on it, only when I notice and am in the app.