As commonly said a multiple times, moderators are not official employees of this forum rather they are just volunteers willing to spend their time cleaning up the boards from spams. An employee should demand a higher pay for his work, a volunteer should receive simply what he gets paid. Here most of the forum members are spending their time along with the mods to clean up a little by more oftenly reporting spam posts. Are they getting paid for what they do? You are helping out the forum voluntarily and you are not being hired to clean up the board! When hilarious was hired back in 2014 he proved what he was capable of by spamming the report section without receiving anything in return and theymos eventually chose him as a MOD.
Mods like @hilarious @achow101 @mprep deserve all the respects from my part, as they give the good example for all of us.
So where is rickbig in this list? He is one hell of a global moderator who does an outstanding job when both mprep and hilarious is offline or probably during late nights when they are asleep. I am quite sure the global mods are not the only guys to have control of all the boards. There are some staffs here, who is visiting some boards that doesn't have a dedicated moderator and working out in shadows to clean the spam.
achow101 should have a pretty easy time moderating the Tech Board since there isn't much spammers visiting that board.
many others are almost doing nothing, due to low board activity like those in some local boards.
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how to complaint about him?
So you seem to pointing to someone here?
It will be so sad hearing that all the Mods receive the same paiement amount.
No not at all. What are the basis for your claims? Global Mods get paid higher than others as far as I know and those payments are far equal to others earning through their signatures.
Are you willing to know how much they are being paid? Why don't you check them yourself in the blockchain. As far as I have seen through, they are being paid monthly somewhere around 0.1 BTC which seems to be far less than a chipmixer signature wearing poster.
FYI This is the last month payment txID for all the bitcointalk MODS :
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/96a1a225989aa9bbe1de66866d123e8b897b9ea3504b44605f88ddbff17faf49Here it is quite evident that, main board mods get paid higher than a local board moderator and global mods are even more higher.
Have I broken their privacy? No not at all everything is stored on the blockchain and since it is a decentralized forum everything needs to be transparent.
Secondly, i start this thread to open a discussing about the exact role of a moderator and its limits.
Moderators (excluding global mods) don't have much power, and I am quoting this as far as I have learnt about the MOD power
1. They can edit a topic or post in their boards
2. They can move topics within boards
3. Delete/Lock the topic and posts within which they are appointed
4. They can pin/unpin topics within their board
5. They can nuke newbie accounts
6. They can suggest to theymos regarding the banning of far more senior accounts.
7. They can view your email ID if you are reporting in the board they control
Who can judge the work of a mod? and how to complaint about him? but how to judge him his work when there is no official set of rules for them?
Theymos himself can judge the mods.
This is a decentralized forum and mentioning any such official rules will destroy the whole purpose of that actually. Local Mods follow the unofficial rules mentioned by mprep or can device their own rules for their boards.
and what kind of coordination can be set between Mods and DTs?
Moderators don't moderate scams as they are not meant for. DT people along with the MODS can tag the scammers and their seems to be no correlation between those two.
