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Fuad Yahya
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Membership dues do not make a member professional, but requiring dues will drastically reduce abuse Apr 30, 2005

two2tango wrote:

There is no correlation between paying a membership and being professional.

Calling non-professional a colleague because he/she is not paying a site membership is, in my view, utterly wrong and unfair.



The correlation that I continue to point to is not between paying a membership and being professional. It is rather between minimum annual dues and behaving professionally.

Many non-paying members are full-fledged, experienced, thriving, accomplished professionals. And some of them even behave professionally as they participate in ProZ. I salute them all.

But there is no denying the obvious: the free-for-all model has proven to be an open invitation to abuse. Among the most recently discussed forms of abuse is multiple-profiles. Profiles are free of charge. One profile costs as much as 100 profiles. Is it any wonder that folks would try it? A low-cost membership level would go very far towards stemming this tide.

And that is just one example.
 
Kirill Semenov
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There are at least two ways to compensate Apr 30, 2005

Fuad Yahya wrote:
Many non-paying members are full-fledged, experienced, thriving, accomplished professionals. And some of them even behave professionally as they participate in ProZ. I salute them all.
But there is no denying the obvious: the free-for-all model has proven to be an open invitation to abuse. Among the most recently discussed forms of abuse is multiple-profiles. Profiles are free of charge. One profile costs as much as 100 profiles. Is it any wonder that folks would try it? A low-cost membership level would go very far towards stemming this tide.


I see at least two ways to put the system on a give-and-take ground.

The first one is a payment, even small. This is a nice way, but the world is large enough, and there are countries on the globe in which a translator, however good, has real problems with sending money. I live in one of such countries, so I feel the problem.

The second solution may be even better: it's a way to connect the number of kudoZ points with the number of questions a person has a right to ask. It seems much better to me. Earn some points -- and you can ask this or that amount of professional questions. Looks like a fair deal, doesn't it? Or, if you are an outsider, pay a buck to support proZ for each question you ask. Outsiders get a professional help here, and usually people do pay for a professional help.

[Edited at 2005-04-30 15:36]
 
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