Quoting Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com:
On 11/2/07, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
b) it ruins our Tom Sawyer approach to get so many editors. If we start paying some people to whitewash the fence, whitewashing looks a lot less fun.
Isn't this more or less what I said in my (quite unpopular) response to the "[WikiEN-l] Could we use a chore wheel?" thread...
Yes, although I'd argue that the chore wheel situation might be a bit different because even with all our propaganda some things are clearly not fun but need to get done. As long as we can convince people that most things are fun we're in good shape.