Developers, Accountable? YES PLEASE - Lecture 7 Post-Op

Lecture all about ‘Dah giving stuff back to the audience/consumer, making the consumer partly a producer of the content etc’Using Trainz as an example again (AGAIN) Banks looked at something slightly more interesting, the incorporation of fan innovationa dn creations back into the Trainz experience, which is similar to some beta testing that I get to do. To be a part of the creation process for a game makes the game that much more enjoyable to…enjoy. But mostly this lecture was on ethics and how to govern the online community that revolves around the Trainz Experiment. Does the use of this fan content make the fans legit employees and be payed accordingly? Or can they be given rewards for doing this in another way. When I beta test I don’t do it for money, but for the experience, to get the free game, and the street cred from being in a small testing group for a piece of software. Now, if I were to be working as an employee for a larger company as an actual tester, I would be being payed for the exact same thing. But that would be a job, what I am doing with the testing is more like…charity :P Finally, “Developers should be Accountable”. To steal something from the lecture :P