People are still seeing the forum as a working place, not a forum where you can post your opinions or thoughts and actually engage in conversations wherever you want ...sad..
This is a bit off-topic here although it arises from the specific case of a campaign member who didn't understand why he hasn't been paid for some posts, so as I don't consider it completely off-topic I'll give my opinion.
This topic has already been discussed several times on Meta and in another
recent thread on B&H.For it to be a kind of forum as you say, the moderation should be different. A forum where you are not paid to write and with moderation rules where quality is sought would soon die.
I was trying to explain that signature earnings should be complementary to a member's usual forum activity. However, in most cases, the opposite is true: users are driven by signatures and post only inside boards where they are paid...
And what's wrong with that? Companies seek exposure with ads, managers offer it with signature campaigns and posters in most campaigns get it with constructive posts. It seems to me that the criticism that is often made comes from a political conception that sees money as evil, rather than as a measure of success as long as it is earned honestly, which is how I see it.
Before participating in this forum I participated in many others, and nowadays I hardly participate in them due to lack of time, and if I have to choose between writing where I am paid and where I am not paid, it is logical that I end up writing much more where I am paid. Or at least that's how I do it.
If I were not paid in any of them, I would participate in forums, but not necessarily so much in this one. However, since I get paid, I adapt my posting habits to what I think the company is looking for. If I participate in a gambling signature campaign, even if I don't have minimum posting requirements in the gambling section I try to write more there than I do now that I work for a mixer.
Another thing is that from time to time I write posts that I know I won't get paid for, because they exceed the quota or because I write them on boards that don't get paid. Like this one for example.
➥ Excluded boards, (Altcoins, WO & Serious, Sig Threads....
So you're saying you let the campaign decide where you'll post? Why? It's totally fine to post in "Mega Threads" if you want that, and it's totally fine to post on boards that aren't paid by a campaign. You're supposed to post where you want, not where you're paid.
What he is saying is that he works for a campaign and wants to understand the rules of the campaign to work well, because if you are hired for a campaign and you write most of the posts where you don't get paid, because it is not in the interest of the campaign, they usually don't take long to kick you out. Once he is clear that he is not going to be paid for most of the posts he writes in gambling mega-threads, it is normal that he does not write so many posts there if he has limited time, although he can still write some knowing that he will probably not be paid.
