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CM30 on Oct 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Stack Exchange in violation of NY labor law by ...

Not just services. It'd also theoretically break (if taken to an extreme):

Wikis, since most wikis don't pay their admins/bureaucrats. Like most of the ones on Wikia, Gamepedia, the NIWA, etc.

Old school fan sites, which often went with volunteer staff teams

Quite a few media/fan run/gaming news sites, which also often have volunteer writers.

etc

dx034 on Oct 31, 2019 [–]

It wouldn't kill Wikis, it would just force them to operate as non-profits. Maybe not such a bad change. If they want to be a for-profit, they can still have volunteer writers but no volunteer admins.

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