On Nov 4, 2007 9:12 PM, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
I didn't really start paying close attention to Wikipedia's culture until 2004, at which point I think a lot of these norms were well established. Does anybody know the history, and whether there were external sources or inspirations for the things I mention? Was there an explicit decision to avoid reward systems? Or did it just happen?
I make no pretense of having a great recall of what transpired in those days, but I never recall any conscious decision to discourage incentives as counter-productive; we just believed in what we were doing because that is how it had been done before. You may have to go back a year or two (i.e. to '03 or '02) to see if there was an explicit decision behind this.
Johnleemk