About the signature campaign...
If the team will never pay the participants, does the manager has the obligation to do so? as he is the one who's the main reason why there are some participants unpaid!
Managers are not liable to pay the campaign out of their pocket. Some have or at least I have paid a campaign from my pocket in the past, but it is not required. Managers should get the payment for a campaign up front or have it escrowed, unless it's a reputable company. This guarantees the participants are paid. If a person cannot get the company to agree to escrow or get the payment up front, then the Manager should pass on the job.
On a side note, all participants are at fault here just as much as the company and Manager. Those who wore the advertisement did so knowing the payment was not escrowed or held by the manager. If you're crazy enough to join a campaign where payment is not secured, then you cannot go crying when not paid.
The users who look to join signature campaigns do not pay attention to anything or care about anything it seems. All they care about is getting a spot and making money. NONE of you should even apply to a campaign unless funds are secured. NONE of you should advertise for new companies without guarantees. None of you should support Managers that are unable to get a company to at a minimum, ESCROW payments.
New companies should get 0 support unless they are willing to guarantee payments. Don't apply to their campaign and wear their advertisement without these guarantees. Yea, it's hard to get a spot in campaigns with so many applying, but if your post quality was excellent you wouldn't have these worries.
Kind of rambled on a bit there but in any case, I will support the flag.
Yes he's the one. Based on his statement he hasn't been paid by the team (can't verify this). Reason I didn't include him was, we (unpaid participants) saw the desire in him wanting the team to pay the unpaid participants, he kept us updated and even sent screenshots of their conversations to the group. From my observations could be the developers intentionally kept him in the dark in regards to not approving removal of signature. Although the whole scheme might just be preplanned I don't have a clue.
I hope you'll get some sort of resolution and I understand your unwillingness to flag him but if it doesn't get resolved in a reasonable amount of time I would suggest to create a flag on Nekoma2018. Whether it's malice or extreme incompetence I think it deserves a warning.
I would agree with this as well. If Managers are going to act incompetent, there should be penalties.