I didn't realize that. But, now that you point that out, I should say that I'm all for contributors getting paid for their contributions -- as long as there were some effective safeguards put in place to keep them from gaming the system.

"You might want to know that wikipedia has paid staff as well."

If they are paid a reasonable wage to maintain the system, from a site that subsists on the donation model, I have no problem with that at all.

A for-profit entity that makes its money from my work is something quite different, however.