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It's a for-profit site that runs off unpaid/donated microlabor. It's gonna take some serious gamification to keep that model palatable to contributors if/when
by service 12y ago
It's a for-profit site that runs off unpaid/donated microlabor. It's gonna take some serious gamification to keep that model palatable to contributors if/when the cash start rolling in (or they get a big exit, etc).
- booruguru 12y agoWhat on Earth are you talking about? iFixit, Wikia, and many others make money based on people generating high-quality content for free. This is hardly some daring new business model.
- service 12y agoThe shift of focus away from lyrics towards annotating texts that require more academic rigour (literature, historic documents, news) combined with the brash, public personalities of the owners make me think it will be a bigger problem for these guys than for others. Either way I think a collective "Wait a second..." is long overdue across the board, but that's the optimist in me.