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Comments on Voluntariness vs. Responsibility, which of them should be considered as a priority for the community team?

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Voluntariness vs. Responsibility, which of them should be considered as a priority for the community team?

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Before starting the concern, I want to appreciate and acknowledge the community team for their volunteer efforts to run Codidact and handle its issues as far as they can.

When I sometimes talk to some people about the state of some unhandled issues, I am answered explicitly or implicitly that "the community team are unpaid volunteers", "they have not free time to handle any issue", "Codidact is an open source platform so that anyone can fix a problem", and so on.

I agree that no one should expect a volunteer to do some work, but for an aspiring community there should be a difference between "voluntariness" and "responsibility". In such a community the community team, though they may be unpaid volunteers, try to run the community like that they are paid staff.

The Codidact community team have accepted to be the staff and run the community. So, in my opinion, if Codidact is an aspiring platform, one may expect that they work as paid staff do.

Am I right?


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Hit + because if this is not duplicate, it is the first to raise an important point. But no, absolutely not, your expectation is hugely wrong.

Logician‭ wrote over 3 years ago · edited over 3 years ago

Something about the default sorting is way off because I don’t think this down voted 11 times to 1 question should be the first one I see when I come to Meta

Yesterday it had less than five downs, I'm fine enough with most active first if that's what's happening.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote over 3 years ago

@Logician: You are apparently sorting by activity, not score. This question is at the top because it had the most recent activity.

KingDuken‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Unless you suggest that Codidact can have a wave of sponsors like StackExchange, I don't expect anyone to make a salary on this website.