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on 2007-05-19 by fridemar

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Wasn't it George B. Shaw, who had the courage to formulate "Scarcity of money is the source of all evil"...

After reading the articles

Social Online Collaborating Communities produce a wealth of ideas, information, movies, programs, social relations, etc. but they usually work for free. Sharing of generated wealth is not in their MissionStatement. Counterexamples welcome.

It doesn't need "rocket science" to see, that (future) online communities, who additionally support economic integration, will be more attractive than those, who adhere to the principle: l'art pour l'art.

Some OnlineCommunity, or better CommunityServiceProvider, have in their TOS (TermsOfService) a StayPoor? clause. Let's become aware of this suppression mechanism, so that CreatingAndSharingWealth communities can be easier detected and developed.

-- FridemarPache

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on 2007-06-12 by fuzbolero

The title of the page - StayPoor - is ironic, points to the fact that many (most?) web services have small-print terms that basically severely limits the (legal) usefulness of the service, especially for commercial - or "egoistic" (...) purposes. This is can be seen as quite counter-productive, especially as it is often the case that even if it is possible to be allowed to use the service commercially, it leaves the impression that this is at best cumbersome and far more time consuming to "get", compared to how easy it is to get started as an individual (seconds, as opposed to write a letter to ask permission and wait for reply, make a "deal" which obviously is also meant to ensure the service gets its piece of your pie if you use it commercially).  Example: online bookmark sharing services.

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Of course no online community provider dares to say "Stay poor!" to their members in its terms of service. But nevertheless, if you carefully read the smallprint you'll find words or tacit lores like:

  • only for private use
  • not for commercial use
  • no Spam allowed
  • no links to (commercial active) external sites allowed (Yes, the author remembers the time, when in some communities all kinds of external links were forbidden)
  • user grants the copyright to the service provider (possibly, but not necessarily a CopyrightTrap)
  • restricting the incentives to small beer values "affiliation, recognition, accomplishment" that are abundant in every online-community (from "SelfishVolunteer")
  • statements like: "Usually this is paid badly but my personal feeling in doing so is good, and I know quite a number of people that share this attitude."
  • .. (please complete the list)

The reason for this WikiPage, which is at the same time a tag, and a TrailMark in the FireTrail: CreatingAndSharingWealth is:

  • to help peers to save time for finding an appropriate community, especially a wiki, where they can realize a CommunityWiki:WikiWayOfLife, which integrates the economic participation.
  • to help community founders and community service providers to make their venture more attractive to new and highly creative users, who otherwise would be forced to work elsewhere for money.

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on 2007-05-19 by fridemar

This page has the DiiGo tags: "StayPoor", "CreatingAndSharingWealth" and at the same time it is a TrailMark in the wiki-mode FireTrail, next to the right of this DiiGo annotation. It is intended to foster open SocialCollaboration communities, that include a revenue model for their members. -- fridemar