Jason Calacanis’ offer to pay $1,000 a month for Netscape power contributors has once again raised the question of whether citizen journalists — or any user who contributes content — should be paid. Mark Glaser tackles the question, and he interviews Digg CEO and co-founder Jay Adelson about the idea. “Oh no, that would be a complete destruction of what we consider to be the principles of Digg,” Adelson said. “Certainly no monetary compensation or things like that, because what we don’t want to do is create this artificial hierarchy.” User compensation is a big issue that will only get bigger as everyone gets into the user-created content game.
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