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Originally Posted by disilene
But like Stick said, we are not the owners (we don't pay for people to write the software)
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Actually, you do.** Or, more accurately, you pay for ECCIE's existence.
Even if you don't pay in money, you pay in reviews.
ECCIE is a site made up of user-generated content and ads.
The ads provide the revenue. Companies buy ads because they know ECCIE gets a ton of traffic.
User-generated content is what drives traffic to the site. "Content" = text or images that we users (both providers and reviewers) create. Ex: Providers upload erotic photos (i.e., visual porn). Reviewers upload reviews (i.e., written porn).
If ECCIE suddenly lost all of its user-generated content, it would be nothing. There would be no reason for anyone to visit the site. There would be nothing driving traffic here. ECCIE could have the greatest software engineers in the world (which it doesn't, because it doesn't need software engineers--I'll get to that), but without people to write sexy reviews and upload sexy pictures, it's just an empty forum with no traffic. And companies do not pay to advertise on websites that no one visits.
So when it comes down to it, writing a review (generating content) ends up being a pretty fair trade for having access to the ROS, etc. So why, when a woman writes a review (i.e., provides content for the site, in effect doing her part to pull traffic to the site, which is what attracts advertisers, which is what pays the bills), is she not compensated equally?
And people say the gender pay gap is a myth.
**Actually, no one really does, because ECCIE doesn't need to have its own special software written by its own special software engineers; it runs on vBulletin, which is an internet forum software package you can buy for a couple hundred bucks.
