Why are community moderators willing to do paid work for free?

Why are you working for free? Do you realize by working for free for Yahoo!, you are essentially helping make Yahoo! a more profitable company. In turn, that means that the stock goes up (ok ok, this is an oxy moron) and the RICH get RICHER. Meanwhile, poor peon's like us are doing hard work FOR FREE.





What gives? Would you all work for Microsoft for free too? Maybe you could polish Bill Gates shoes for free? No reason to delete this as it's a serious legitimate question. I just recently saw the announcement on the front page and I am curious, as a strong member of a strong union why anyone would work for free?

Why are community moderators willing to do paid work for free?
If I own Yahoo stock, then it is in my best interest to answer questions.





BTW, we all work for microsoft free when IE blows up and says "do you want to send your error message to IE" and you say "YES" - you're helping debug their software.





BTW, there are sites where you can moderate and get paid, and a good long history on yahoo helps you get hired. You don't make much, they pay per question answered.





Some of us just like to help others - a bit altruistic, but true.





BTW, the strong member of a strong union - like the UAW? Who had job banks and thousands of people getting paid by the auto companies and not working for years? That's the opposite or your complaint - people getting paid to do nothing!



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