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Why do people contribute in general?

• The results from the study about individual and social motivations revealed an eight-factor structure of motivation for contributing to such an effort.
• One of the 8 factors is to simply provide information.
• Can you think of other reasons people would contribute information to a general cause or respond to questions such as the one we asked?
• Study: http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/119040/Suzuki_Yoshikazu_November2011.pdf;jsessionid=1C1987CA8AA23BC780C6392D6DB77230?sequence=1