Fnord wrote:
VegetableMan wrote:
I'm simply talking about people who get paid to weed out the trolls and abusive content on websites. Nobody here is going to have to pay a fee more membership. I'm assuming that this would be paid for by the ad revenue generated by WP. Calm down! You're kind of scaring me.
It should be scary. If Alex could afford paid professionals, we would already have paid professionals -- the ad revenue from this website must not be sufficient, so membership fees would be needed.
(Maybe also selling our personal data to targeted advertisers would be needed, as well.)
Of course, if all you're really talking about is dismissing our current staff and hiring the on-line equivalent of mall cops, then the only gain would be "fresh blood", and nothing more. We might even experience "I'm getting paid to do this, so who are you to question my decisions" degree of arrogance instead of our current "We don't get paid, and we're doing the best we can" degree of humility.
The Walrus has made his case clear. Any reasonable person can see that.I was a moderator in the past, but not paid. I quit because I had too many friends on the forum, and couldn't be completely impartial. That was my main reason for suggesting outsourcing the job.
I know something about earning money through Adsense revenue, because I earned a fair amount from the internet for about six years. If I knew exactly how many views this site gets, I could ballpark the annual figure. It could be in six figures for all I know.
As far as Walrus is concerned, I still think he is far too partisan to be qualified to be a mod here. I stand by that assessment.
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