Topic: A small proposal to support the forum team/community. (Read 470 times)

I have a feeling like you are taking it personally. You shouldn't. It's nothing against you. People have evil intentions and will look to exploit every little thing that can be exploited. One should never generalize because not everyone is that same, but imagine you posted your private key in a public post by mistake instead of your address. What do you think how many people would try to sweep the funds and steal them, and how many people would make you aware of your mistake and ask you to correct it or send the coins to an address under their control and ask you how to return it to you? I think 2 or 3 out of 10 would do the right thing, the others wouldn't. Money corrupts people.  

Good point, I've seen that happen too. I can imagine most of the work Mods do happens quietly in the background.

There are several projects operated by Bitcointalk members, like Royse777's Project Covid - 19 or the Bitcointalk Charity Program by cabalism13. Have a look, it might help you further. I remember seeing a donation fund by someone who wanted to build rice farms in Vietnam if I a not mistaken. I tried to look for it, but I wasn't able to find the thread.

It's a pity that some people are trying to find an evil intent in this whole discussion.

I've no idea how much Theymos pays the moderators here

I would allow myself to disagree with you here. As some of the reputable forum members already mentioned above - all this should be impersonal and unbiased. Community must decide who will be encouraged - not me or any other particular user.

As Lucius also correctly noticed such initiatives can and will be abused - that's why distribution mechanism needs to be agreed upon.

My only goal is to create an unbiased, impersonal donation fund, where funds would be distributed within active and contributing members in a fair and decentralized way, just how we all like it with crypto!

Or, you will witness another phenomenon where the biggest local forums will vote for a member from their own local. Battle of nations.

I confirm that i got the donation , but i will donate the half or the whole amount to an charity project .
So if anybody know a good charity project let me know it please.

I am making the first step to prove my intentions. Donation sent to the user I have not known of before this and isaac_clarke22 pointing to his thread: I see a lot of dedication and effort which Lafu puts into this. TXid: 690b7f81978a3f5192d3c739666709700cb0496c4aa531e6dab8ae55f7649a69

I want to underline once again that this donation is not something I was aiming to achieve with this thread. My only goal is to create an unbiased, impersonal donation fund, where funds would be distributed within active and contributing members in a fair and decentralized way, just how we all like it with crypto!

Community must decide who will be encouraged - not me or any other particular user.

Please enough with this empty talk, lead by example and send Bitcoin donation if you want so much.

I would allow myself to disagree with you here.

Indeed as isaac_clarke22 has mentioned, the non-moderator part of the community is putting a great effort into reporting plagiarism, ban evasion and malware, making Bitcointalk a great place. It's impressive. I think that our discussion here brings us to a logical conclusion to create the donation fund for active community members, and not for the moderators. Any further thoughts on this?

P.S. I have adjusted the OP title as well.

Most of the people here are not social cases, they don't need to live from some donation fund, last time I checked this is not a socialist-communist forum, and you should stop thinking what other people need to do with their own money.
Helping forum by reporting plagiarism, spam and other crap is activity that is helping everyone and if you feel so generous you can find address of most forum members and send them you Bitcoin donation.

I think that our discussion here brings us to a logical conclusion to create the donation fund for active community members, and not for the moderators. Any further thoughts on this?

That is weird as well.

I think that our discussion here brings us to a logical conclusion to create the donation fund for active community members, and not for the moderators. Any further thoughts on this?

As for the moderators, we get payments periodically from the forum which theymos facilitates. If you want to personally thank a staff user, then you can always contact them, and see if they would be willing to accept a donation. I'd personally feel a little weird though, since we are already given something for our job, and most of us quite like keep the place clean.

There's far better ways to contribute that donating to the staff in my opinion. A one off donation isn't likely to have a great impact on their motivation, however reporting more frequently is something which contributes to the forum overall rather than individuals. At the end of the day, the moderators are mostly handling reports which have been reported by the community. Without the community, the moderators wouldn't be as efficient. So, I'd like to see something that rewards the community overall for contributing. This is why I was in support with the badges which were proposed a while ago, as it would provide a small recognition for those that put in the time, and effort to make this place a little cleaner, without actually cutting out the larger workforce, since it is achievable by anyone, i.e a donation fund for just staff would be not recognizing the hard work some of the community do to report.

  

Sure, but why in the world would you want to do that (and no disrespect to you, mprep)?  It's not going to make the mods do any more moderation than they already are, and if it's not an anonymous donation it could be seen as a bribe--or could be a bribe, in fact. 

I've no idea how much Theymos pays the moderators here, but the forum certainly has enough money to pay them well if he chooses to do so.  Having a donation fund specifically for mods would be a waste of money.  Bitcointalk probably needs more moderators, given how much spam and how many shitposts slip through the cracks, and Theymos could hire more if he wanted to but apparently he doesn't.

By the way, the term "a modest proposal" is supposed to refer to something written as satire, and I'm not sure if OP meant his post as such.  It didn't come across as satirical if that's what he was going for.

Dear forum members!

I've registered on Bitcointalk a little more than 1 year ago. During that relatively short period of time I got acquainted with lots of wonderful people. Some of those people became my clients, some of them we've partnered with, and with some of the people we have found to be really like-minded.

Just like Bitcoin the forum is built on principles of decentralization and we can see it operating quite efficiently and flourishing. Besides that I have recently found out that Bitcointalk does not accept any donations (https://bitcointalk.org/donate.html), so I am imbued with even greater respect for it.

However, in order to do something useful for the community, I would like to propose an idea. Thanks to the moderators Bitcointalk does not turn into a spammed trash can. They are doing a great job! What if we organize a donation fund where anyone could make a voluntary donation. The funds will be used to reward the forum team. The funds distribution model is a topic for public discussion: either it will be a regular vote, payments on request, or an equal division between all moderators. I am deeply convinced that there are many worthy veteran (legendary) members on the forum who could be entrusted to hold this fund (possibly a multisig). I am ready to be the first one to make a contribution to this fund.

Thank you for your attention, any critics is welcome.

In de-center we trust!

As for mods, if you really want to gift a moderator (or any other user for that matter) some BTC, most moderators have a Bitcoin address in their profile.