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> What they did was build a business model based on taking from many and giving to nobody I'm not sure where you get this. EE treats those answering questions
by andy_adams 13y ago
> What they did was build a business model based on taking from many and giving to nobody
I'm not sure where you get this. EE treats those answering questions really well, and nobody is forcing them to answer. Nobody forces EE's customers to pay for access to their content, either. Behind the curtain they actually have a lot of happy customers (and question answerers).
They didn't fit the "open source" model programmers like, but for the people who need advanced help with Cisco routers or for the experts winning trips around the world, they're actually not such a slimy company. Thanks for your comments.
- 300bps 13y agoI'm not sure where you get this. EE treats those answering questions really well From Wikipedia: At Experts-Exchange, users are awarded points for answering questions Out of curiosity, what is the exchange rate between Experts Exchange points and reddit karma? Wikipedia goes on... Experts (those who have reached 10,000 points overall and maintain at least 3,000 points per month)[15] and subscribers get the benefit of using the site's search engine without limitations and no ads are shown. What's the hourly rate on this work? Please explain how "EE treast those answering questions really well". Because it seems to me these people are doing work worth in the neighborhood of $100 per hour. You tell me how much they're actually making.
- andy_adams 13y agoI'm not sure I understand your point. You seem to be thinking that people answering questions deserve to be paid - as if they're being forced into answering at all. Experts on EE are answering questions for the same reason users on SO are. > Please explain how "EE treast those answering questions really well" If you're a top contributor to EE, you get flown to really nice places and are treated like a VIP by EE. Not everyone reaches this level, but those who do get a really nice perk, in addition to the benefits of answering questions in general.
- 300bps 13y agoYou seem to be thinking that people answering questions deserve to be paid If I may first pay you a compliment, you are very adept at twisting words and building up straw man arguments. What I actually said was: What [Experts Exchange] did was build a business model based on taking from many and giving to nobody Your response was then: EE treats those answering questions really well But we both know this isn't true. It pays the vast, vast, vast majority of question answerers in worthless or near worthless points. The average question answerer, including the ones that get flown places and "treated like a VIP" is probably actually getting less than minimum wage for their work. That's hardly being treated "really well". So we come back to my original statement. Experts Exchange built their business on taking from many and giving to nobody. If you want me to add an exception of, "giving to nobody except giving scraps to the very top of people whose time they were taking to build their business on" I would be amenable to that.
- t50 13y agoI don't understand what getting paid for answers is for? They volunteer to help answer questions, most do this because they get that warm fuzzy feeling inside from doing a good deed and helping someone out, the rest for the free access to the site. No one at SO gets paid to post. so why should EE pay them to post?
- 300bps 13y agoNo one at SO gets paid to post. so why should EE pay them to post? Maybe because EE expects to be paid to share those answers and SO doesn't?