On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Russell Coker wrote:
with Wikipedia are new. People haven't changed much in 10,000+ years. The problems in question are all people problems. Paying people doesn't make things magically become better, it just means that you have a much smaller number of people while also having a few of the most unreliable people removed from the pool.
The question is, does allowing everyone access (including lots of trolls and idiots) give a better result than having a select number of people with a smaller (but non zero) incidence of trolls and idiots?
Hah. Because we're a big bureacratic organisation, we use a lot of commercial enterprise quality software. This simply means that you pay lots of money for a poorly tested, poorly designed product with no community behind it, and no real help from the venduh. But the manager who asked for the purchase gets to cover his arse and add zeros to the end of his yearly budget empire. This post brought to you by the commercial Linux distributers, and the letters O, R, A, C, L and E, and Z E N O S and S, and E, B & S, and I, S, U, P, P, O, R & T amongst most of the other letters in the alphabet. (A case where I have found it is good to pay some extra money to not have to deal with the masses is paying $10 extra to avoid the jetstar clientelle. And there are other examples - I just can't remember them) -- Tim Connors