We all knew there was no such thing as a free lunch, an insight memorably encapsulated in 2010 by a commenter to the website
MetaFilter, as, "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." But, really, how can you tell?
Even seemingly "open" communities such as StackExchange and
MetaFilter require constant moderator intervention and community policing.
the Los Angeles Times wikitorial,
MetaFilter, and Reddit.
The one who didn't posted about it on the website
MetaFilter. The next morning, Taylor was shocked to see more than 1,000 emails.
Newbery honorees like Neil Gaiman tweeted about it, tastemakers like Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow blogged about it, and the contest was featured in BooMist, Wired.com, Buzzfeed,
Metafilter, the Onion's A.V.
"I was at someone's house when they accepted delivery of their brand new motorcycle," recalls one contributor to the community site Ask
MetaFilter. "First thing he did was reach down and grab a handful of gravel (and) throw it at the gas tank: 'There, now I don't have to worry about that.'Ce"- Guardian News and Media
(3) We could also use the well-know quote: "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold" by Andrew Lewis aka blue_beetle on
MetaFilter (http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#3256046).
Flickr, WordPress, Reddit and
MetaFilter blacked their content.
Other sites such as WordPress, Reddit, Flickr, and
MetaFilter blacked their content completely or partially.
Exploring the dynamics of blog communities: The case of
MetaFilter. Information Systems Journal, 19(1), 55-81.
MetaFilter, a community blog, was launched in 1999.