[WikiEN-l] A BADSITES RfA piling-on

[William Pietri]

Slim Virgin wrote:
> On 5/30/07, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
>   
>> Yeah, people who feel it is implausible that a person could hit a button
>> 5-10 times a minute for hours on end with reasonable quality control
>> have apparently not ever had a modern manufacturing job.
>>
>>     
> I doubt that anyone with a modern manufacturing job would do it
> without pay, William.

I think Mark Twain said it best:

"If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this 
book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a 
body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not 
obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing 
artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling 
ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy 
gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger- coaches twenty or 
thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs 
them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, 
that would turn it into work and then they would resign."

The only difference I see 150 years later is that constructing 
artificial flowers and using treadmills are now also play.

Also consider World of Warcraft. Most people play it for fun; gold 
farmers play it for money. As far as I can tell it's no more boring than 
the kind of cleanup that Gracenotes was doing, and he was actually 
accomplishing something.


William