Quote from: Quickseller on April 12, 2015, 05:55:55 PM

The exact formula is secret, although if you keep track of what actions you take and how much you are paid then you should be able to figure out what actions are worth the most and taking those kinds of actions even when they might not be necessary. For example sending a PM to someone in relation to a moderation (e.g. being from a moderator as a moderator) likely causes that moderator action to be "worth" more or is separately worth something in itself. One of my alts once had one of it's posts deleted when I replied to a post of Bruno about something that grue claimed was off topic, this was far from a trend and was probably unnecessary to receive a PM about it, however I got a PM around the time the post was deleted saying that my post was deleted because it was a reply to an off topic post.

I would think that the payment is not based on responsibilities, but rather by actions taken. It is just that a higher ranking staff member would have more opportunities to take additional actions, and potentially more valuable actions.

Except it's not really possible as I explained above. I handle too many reports to count and I'm sure I could probably handle much less but still get paid the same seeing as I more or less get the same every month (or didn't get any more after I got promoted so clearly there is a limit or threshold based on staff rank and I'm hitting it). Very active patrollers or mods of local boards like me and Eal got pretty much exactly the same but even after I got made mod of the entire Marketplace and Bitcoin Discussion and my workload must have at least doubled but yet we still get paid pretty much the same.

Quote from: dothebeats on April 12, 2015, 05:57:25 PM

A quick question because I'm just curious on this one (this is an off-topic question but can you answer this question?). How do you guys became mods of this forum? I've been thinking about it for too long. Cheesy

Report a lot of posts and be a very active member of the community and theymos may ask you eventually.

Quote from: abyrnes81 on April 12, 2015, 05:46:17 PM

May I ask you if you are doing the mod because you like it or because you are paid for moderate your sections?

I don't think any of us mods get our jollies from moderating and saying we like it would be a bit sadomasochistic I think Cheesy

but the payment is just a nice bonus for the work that we put in and I very much appreciate it as I'm sure many mods would also agree. I'm not complaining if that's what it looks like. Just stating the pay is likely capped via mod rank.