[WikiEN-l] Punished by Rewards? (Wikidudeman)

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

Wiki Dudeman wrote

> I notice currently that a lot of editors seem to have only one goal in mind on wikipedia and that is becoming
> an administrator. This is perceived as an "award" for hard work and many editors seem to base all of their edits on this one goal, 
> with disregard for actually improving the encyclopedia. >This is why reward systems are harmful, people would tend to do the work purely 
> for the specific reward offered by others rather than the actual award of doing good work to help people.

Perhaps the logic there is more of having forms of recognition other than adminship, though. We are indeed a bit light on forms of recognition.

Charles

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