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by paul_cryer
5423 days ago
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Frobozz, Agreed - as long as quality/depth is of critical importance. A trivial fee ($2) does not warrant such response and neither do we guarantee that. However, by charging that trivial fee, the goal is to "guarantee" an answer to anyone. In sites like Reddit, unless you can pique some corners of one's brain, you are not likely to get an insightful response in a private setting. We allow you to 'own' your advice and women understand that it is only seen by you and not the whole community. Therefore, they tend to have a more 'personalized' approach. Of about 65 questions asked and a few hundred responses received so far we have noticed that women are actually taking the time to respond. It's not the $1 they make, but the trend seems to be that they actually 'enjoy' providing advice to men. |
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If someone is only going to pay me a dollar for something, I'm not likely to do it were it not something I'd do for free anyway.
This is the point of the "pay enough or don't pay at all" statement. Both quality and quantity tend to go down if you go from pure volunteers to paying below market rate.
To earn US Federal minimum wage, answerers would have to spend, on average, 8 minutes on each question. This is not just the reading and writing of the question and answer, but also any time spent getting ready to work.
Obviously, you're the one who has real-world experience of this, and I'm just an armchair pundit who has read a few articles; so you know more than me. I'm just curious about how you have managed to go against the current received wisdom.