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0 pointsGoronmon4y ago0 comments

The way I see it as a user is that while I may invest time in a community like Stackoverflow, my actual responsibilities are practically non-existent and my direct monetary investment is literally zero.

Whereas the company maintaining the site as a whole has to invest a whole lot of time and money into keeping the site running, and have a huge responsibility in continuing to do so if they want to site to even stay in existence, let alone grow and succeed.

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ehnto4y ago

But your answers clearly had value, otherwise they couldn't have sold the site as it would have nothing on it.

passivate4y ago

IMO, That is a bit of an odd position to take. The terms of the deal were very clear going in.

I don't owe Donald Knuth anything more than the $100 (placeholder) for his books, even if they helped me get a 6 figure job right out of college.

Yes, his books had a lot more "value" than $100, but those were the terms of the deal.

ehnto4y ago

I don't expect any monetary recuperation, you're right in that the deal was clear to begin with. Just like I don't expect a cut of ad-revenue from a forum or what-have-you.

I just don't feel it's correct to say that the contributions actually had no monetary value, they definitely did, it's just that we handed it to Stack Overflow for free in exchange for participating in the platform.

I don't think it's unreasonable to feel a little bit jaded about it either. I'm not, I didn't contribute nearly enough to feel entitled to squat. But I get it.

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ehnto4y ago

But your answers clearly had value, otherwise they couldn't have sold the site as it would have nothing on it.

passivate4y ago

IMO, That is a bit of an odd position to take. The terms of the deal were very clear going in.

I don't owe Donald Knuth anything more than the $100 (placeholder) for his books, even if they helped me get a 6 figure job right out of college.

Yes, his books had a lot more "value" than $100, but those were the terms of the deal.

ehnto4y ago

I don't expect any monetary recuperation, you're right in that the deal was clear to begin with. Just like I don't expect a cut of ad-revenue from a forum or what-have-you.

I don't think it's unreasonable to feel a little bit jaded about it either. I'm not, I didn't contribute nearly enough to feel entitled to squat. But I get it.

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