One thing that is worthy of adding is remembering what ecosystem you are in. If you see what you are doing as poisoning the downstream life, then your actions should should be rethought.

I see many of the spec sites out there today as promoting a ‘new way of recycling’ when they are dumping oil down the river. If the practice builds up community in the short lifespan of the company, and pushes an industry to focus on quick, lack of quality ethic, then it is the responsibility of everyone in the ecosystem to bring it up, say we can do better.

And, crowdsourcing is a relatively new concept to me. Why would I want the “crowd” to do the work that I am being paid for? Or to develop the product I should be designing?

Your description of the difference really helps solidify it for me. There is a ton of value for a community to decide what it wants and help design it. Especially in the design world, where there are so many particularities to what is viable and what is not.