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That’s certainly true for stack overflow, but in their case the moderators were very active in getting the negative feedback loop going.


Also, Stack Overflow is a commercial website, while Wikipedia is a free (as in freedom) project. Editing Wikipedia feels like you're contributing towards "an ideal", that you're giving back something to humanity, instead of just helping somebody else getting richer.




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