Commissions - Revenge of the Donations Policy

Summary:

We never covered Commissions. HOW did we miss this? Whatever. Commissions - do we allow them, why, why not.

Commissions - Revenge of the Donations Policy

(account deleted) 04 Jan 2018 20:42

This is something I really should have brought up in discussion, but I kept forgetting to: what's the policy on commissioning things on-site? I.e. someone wants to pay me to write for their project/canon, or just write a specific piece, and I charge a flat rate for what I write? Would this be okay?

Ihp asked this in the discussion of the donations policy document.

Let's try and make this one quick; do you think commissions should be allowed? Show your reasoning.

Extra credit: What, if any, additional policy would we need if we were to allow commissions? (Other than "the author should PM the source to their customer" and "the author retains author credit")

Re: Commissions - Revenge of the Donations Policy

AbsentmindedNihilist 04 Jan 2018 20:47

You know what? Sure. To hell with it, why not? I don't want this to happen, and I worry that this is gonna lead to more advertisement of commissioned services that will clutter the site (I know it's against the rules, but this isn't exactly one that I'm expecting people to follow here, ala coldposting), but you know what, the community seems to be willing to accept that, so I won't stand in the way on this one.

Re: Commissions - Revenge of the Donations Policy

DrEverettMann 04 Jan 2018 21:10

I am going to admin fiat this. Other admins can take me to task if they disagree.

However, we have just now finally gotten a policy that most of our userbase can live with. We are in the experimental period where we see how this is going to work out. I do not think we need further wrinkles at this time.

When we revisit this—and we will revisit this—we can evaluate how the policy is working out. If it's working out very well, we can decide if we want to expand it to things like commissions.

However, I think it is vital that we see how this works out now before we make further changes.

That being said, if people want to work out commissions privately or off-site, that is none of our business, even if those commissions end up on the site. They will at that point be treated as normal entries. There is no way we could police that in any case.

Re: Commissions - Revenge of the Donations Policy

Quikngruvn 04 Jan 2018 23:26

I have no problem with a fiat here, Mann. It's not like you're saying "No, Never" or banning discussion on this— just tabling the discussion till we get more data.

Re: Commissions - Revenge of the Donations Policy

Randomini 05 Jan 2018 00:27

It is unclear to me what it is that you are fiat-ing.

Is the fiat:

1. We're not discussing this until later, leaving staff with no policy on commissions (and thus implicitly permitting them, because they aren't banned)
2. Staff are permitting commissions for now
3. Staff are not permitting commissions for now
4. Or something else?

Re: Commissions - Revenge of the Donations Policy

Dexanote 05 Jan 2018 04:17

I will put money he meant number 3.

Cause if he wasn't I'll fiat number 3. We only just agreed to basic stuff, no commissions until staff is used to talking money.

Re: Commissions - Revenge of the Donations Policy

DrEverettMann 05 Jan 2018 04:35

I meant 3. Anything else would leave us with wrinkles, the presence of which would be deplorable.

Re: Commissions - Revenge of the Donations Policy

DrMagnus 04 Jan 2018 21:20

EDIT: Had this open before Mann's post.

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