[frobozz]

How do you guarantee the answer? What hold do you have over the ladies that makes them answer?

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.