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Re:Small payments sharply diminish gap in responses to parti... by praptak on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @01:00PM (#13222230)
Having skin in the game makes one thoughtful. Sometimes it works in debates too. "Let's do A, it's much better design." "Will you do the debugging and support for the feature?" "Ummm, maybe let's rethink this A, I see some flaws in it."
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Re:Small payments sharply diminish gap in responses to parti... by idiot74 on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @03:19PM (#13223550)
Could be. With no financial reward there's not much incentive to spend energy thinking about things: so answers default to supporting political views. Suddenly there's a financial incentive, and so people take a few more steps in their thought processes. (maybe, idk)
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Re:Small payments sharply diminish gap in responses to parti... by sambe on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @03:35PM (#13223663)
Easy to say yes and then shirk it in future though. Unfortunately common in practice.
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