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Wow. You complete and totally 100% missed the point of my story. I used the example of neighbors because they are (in some neighbors) neighborly, and do altrui
by aestra 13y ago
Wow. You complete and totally 100% missed the point of my story.
I used the example of neighbors because they are (in some neighbors) neighborly, and do altruistic things for each other. When there is a big snowfall in my neighborhood, all my neighbors come out and help each other shovel. There is mostly apartments here, so very few people own a snow blower and everyone needs to dig their cars out. I live alone and whenever someone sees me shoveling by myself, someone always comes over and helps me shovel without expectation of anything in return and its always a different person from last time.
When I make baked goods, I usually stop by the people who live in my building's apartments to see if they would like some of what I made.
I once needed help carrying something up the stairs, so I just knocked on a neighbor's door and he came out to help me. This it the neighbor who doesn't have to pay for internet because I let him use my WiFi.
There's somewhat of an "rule" if someone is in need of something, they just need to ask, and everything works because the give and take is pretty even, nobody takes and takes and takes without giving.
The point is, the person shoveling snow did it to be nice, and to help a neighbor out. Once the person being helped offered a reward in return, they are now putting a monetary value on the help they received and the value was insultingly low, saying "this is how much I value you." If they just said "Thank you very much" then it just remains as an altruistic gift to the community.
I used the neighbor example to make altruism more evident, to not think of it from a purely business prospective.
Yahoo have 2 choices to not offend people:
1) Bug finding is simply an altruistic act from the community.
2) Pair fair compensation.
- talmand 13y agoI would say, based on your follow-up, that I understood your story quite well. Just because someone gives you pocket change for helping them out doesn't mean they put that particular monetary value on your help, it could be just what they had on hand. As in, "here's a little more than just my thanks". You're the one getting needlessly offended. You could always turn down the offer, which you shouldn't because it could be considered offensive to refuse. Out of all the options you have in that case, you choose to be offended. That makes you a bad neighbor. I fail to see how one can expect any form of compensation whatsoever from Yahoo when none was offered in the first place. Just because some places offer bounties doesn't automatically mean everyone does. If you expect compensation when none was offered, then it's your problem with being offended when not getting anything.