Topic: Are the mods getting paid from this forum? - page 7. (Read 10731 times)

If i'm not wrong theymos is just a caretaker like other admins, he does not own's this forum, and it's not his private property.
Real owner is satoshi.

boy, you really pissed in Mathews cheerios huh ? 

It's not libel if it's factually correct.


Yeah, it's called advertising.

I have not stole any money. I have allowed OTHER people to swap their money, to demonstrate.


I should have been more clear - I stayed away from being a moderator on topics I have a strong opinion for or against. WP:INVOLVED.

Also, we're getting pretty offtopic here.

I don't think anyone would have a problem with the forum paying moderators, but the way it's being done in secret (Blockchain trails doesn't count) is what upsets people.

Matthew, does your buddy Vladimir Marchenko still have a forum in the UK? 

that aint all he does.

You run paid libel/smear campaigns against companies you don't like and pay people to repeat your opinions as if they were their own (a form of astroturfing), all while asking neebies to add you into their trust pool on a financial services site enabling you to steal money later whenever you want, just to further this smear campaign. You're saying if you were a mod, you'd be magically the opposite?

So it would hinder your job as a mod.

self reinforcement? you're better than that admin.

Actually, on every forum I modded, I stay away from things that I have a strong opinion for and against.

Actually not, you would mod those with emotion and feelings then being a neutral party.

WOW this is has to be the best paying forum ever!

This is completely off the mark.

Don't forget the lifetime supply of alpaca socks.

I heard that the perks include

1.   Lamborghini with chauffeur (female btw, Victoria Secret's standard and above)
2.   $5000/a minute moderating
3.   Weekly payments via Bitcoins
4.   Helicopter in case of emergency trips
5.   Israel Iron Dome installations to protect against angry scammers' homemade missiles......

What have I missed?

Paying mods (something we can all argue isn't necessary if you bring in more mods who are happy to support the forums by working for free) is the highest expense it seems. The "useful purposes" line in advertising auction threads is not transparent. It's completely subjective.

The forum has not been transparent enough with backend operations in the 2 years I have been here. You did not announce handovers to other hosts, especially MtGox (which was a huge conflict of interest and allowed a for-profit business to look into our PMs whenever they wanted to to see who was competing against them).

The forum has not announced what the funds were being used for before soliciting for donations, and continues to do so under the guise of "creating a new forum" despite no such activity happening.

The forum has not developed a new forum software in over 12 months, despite receiving an admitted 6000 bitcoins now.

The forum pretends to manage reputations by creating "scammer" and "untrustworthy" tags, but doesn't finish the job by removing libel/slander or allowing innocent-until-proven-guilty members to make rebuttals to what the forum agrees openly as spam that is malicious in nature.

The forum spends funds given to it for advertising on moderator paychecks without telling anyone, and continues to ask for more without telling what it's for ("Other useful purposes" is not telling what it's for).

Please make the necessary announcements, be more transparent, bring in more moderators that don't require payoffs, do what you set out to do 12 months ago with the half of a million dollars you're sitting on, and either moderate reputations fairly or don't bother at all.

Thanks!

Those are fairly rare.

You know what I mean, Matthew...
I won't disagree. More mods would be nice to have. I've seen some really good reports, so I think we have some good candidates. Now you just have to convince theymos.

Consistently flawed decisions. consider adding a mod to do your dirty work, like banning and scamtagging scammers. this takes the heat off of you and eliminates the prevalence of scammers in the process.

I do increase my "quality score" in the mod payments algorithm to account for this.

The ad auctions say, "In order to collect more money for the creation of good forum software and for other useful purposes... ."


Bitcoin transaction data isn't meaningful by default. I would need to take extra steps to make the transactions easy to understand, and I'm not going to do that. It's all transparent, though.

Total BTC received:  6499.60971212
BTC in my cold storage address: 3043.20940098
BTC in treasurers' cold storage addresses: 3250
Approximate expenses (total received - BTC in cold storage): 206.40031114
Actual expenses (from my records): 225.9696519

Expenses breakdown:
- Hosting: 27.96617
- Forum improvement: 40
- BTC storage: 21.9
- Mod payments: 136.1034819

This doesn't include any income since the last mod payment, and there may be minor floating-point errors that I don't care to account for.

I don't, but I know theymos enough that I think that it is incorporated in at least some manner. I suspect that only one deletion in a topic per day or some such counts, though.

Well, that's true, but it was still plenty of work adding it. And it is useful.