Moderator Appreciation Thread

[Miguel Cairo]

Personally I think the mods here do a great job. For all the time they spend here I think it’s about time they get paid. We wouldn’t have such a highly functioning community if it wasn’t for their time and effort. This contribution should be reflected with monetary compensation. What do you guys think?

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[Mantis]

#MakeIxcuincleAModAgain

 

[hfman]

Personally I think the mods here do a great job. For all the time they spend here I think it’s about time they get paid. We wouldn’t have such a highly functioning community if it wasn’t for their time and effort. This contribution should be reflected with monetary compensation. What do you guys think?

how do you know they're not getting paid

 

[The Andrew Peeke Fan]

Didn't read

 

[Miguel Cairo]

how do you know they're not getting paid

Whatever they’re being paid, it’s not enough!

 

[Club]

Wow! What a time.

 

[JMCx4]

Personally I think the mods here do a great job. For all the time they spend here I think it’s about time they get paid. We wouldn’t have such a highly functioning community if it wasn’t for their time and effort. This contribution should be reflected with monetary compensation. What do you guys think?

You are hereby authorized to redirect the money I sent you for your previously ill-conceived @Roman Fell fund drive .

 

[Miguel Cairo]

You are hereby authorized to redirect the money I sent you for your previously ill-conceived @Roman Fell fund drive .

I actually had a crazy thought that they would be paid by the company they enrich with their time and efforts. I am told similar arrangements have happened before.

 

[John Price]

@The Nemesis

@Fixed to Ruin

@hangman005

"It's not the moderator's fault /
That the HFBoards servers collapsed."

 

[John Price]

Hey four eyes, vote moderators.

 

[Miguel Cairo]

Hey four eyes, vote moderators.

Do you know so called “volunteers” don’t even get paid?

 

[member 157595]

 

[Tarantula]

Do you know so called “volunteers” don’t even get paid?

That's what the big guy with the shotgun and 10 gallon hat told me the first day on the work farm.

Had I known that......

 

[Kairi Zaide]

Do you know so called “volunteers” don’t even get paid?

Speaking for myself, I don't want to be paid. This is a fun, somewhat relaxing (sometimes terrifying) job, with no hours and relatively low expectations. I'm expected to give what time I feel comfortable giving to the site, to help the site.
Now let's say all moderators get a $10,000/yr salary (random number I pulled out of the air). Suddenly I'm being measured for pay. There's pressure on me to handle flags, because, ya know, it's my job. Also, we see (even more) candidates in moderator elections that don't want to do it because they want the site to prosper, but because there's money involved.
As a moderator, I wouldn't like the pressure. As a user, I wouldn't want to have moderators running a site I participate on because they want money. I want moderators that are doing it because they want the site to be the best place possible.
If you take away the volunteer part, you're left with hired hands that are out to make the numbers on the dashboard next to their name as high as possible.
User might be a spammer, but probably not? Meh, nuke them anyway. Because that adds to the number.
Someone posts something that's borderline, but you personally think should be left open? Close it, because there's a number for it.
I don't want to see this behavior. I don't want to exhibit this behavior. A cool hat and a couple t-shirts is plenty.

 

[Miguel Cairo]

Speaking for myself, I don't want to be paid. This is a fun, somewhat relaxing (sometimes terrifying) job, with no hours and relatively low expectations. I'm expected to give what time I feel comfortable giving to the site, to help the site.
Now let's say all moderators get a $10,000/yr salary (random number I pulled out of the air). Suddenly I'm being measured for pay. There's pressure on me to handle flags, because, ya know, it's my job. Also, we see (even more) candidates in moderator elections that don't want to do it because they want the site to prosper, but because there's money involved.
As a moderator, I wouldn't like the pressure. As a user, I wouldn't want to have moderators running a site I participate on because they want money. I want moderators that are doing it because they want the site to be the best place possible.
If you take away the volunteer part, you're left with hired hands that are out to make the numbers on the dashboard next to their name as high as possible.
User might be a spammer, but probably not? Meh, nuke them anyway. Because that adds to the number.
Someone posts something that's borderline, but you personally think should be left open? Close it, because there's a number for it.
I don't want to see this behavior. I don't want to exhibit this behavior. A cool hat and a couple t-shirts is plenty.

“No, you see I like to have my labor exploited for profit!”

 

[Miguel Cairo]

That argument isn’t comparing working for pay to working without pay it’s comparing working for pay with a terrible system of incentives to working without pay.

 

[member 157595]

User might be a spammer, but probably not?

I think they've conclusively and decisively shown that they don't care about spam anymore.

 

[Tarantula]

We should all get paid for having to read @Roman Fell posts!

 

[member 157595]

We should all get paid for having to read @Roman Fell posts!

Who says you have to read them?

 

[Tarantula]

Who says you have to read them?

Right, volunteers don't get paid!

 

[JMCx4]

That's what the big guy with the shotgun and 10 gallon hat told me the first day on the work farm.

Had I known that......

 

[Tarantula]

Bad memories man, bad bad memories!

 

[Pip]

Nope

 

[Bones Malone]

Not even a little