Its not off topic. If you are going to elect a "Global Moderator", voters may want to know where they stand on the issue, and I might add its arguably the single most important issue facing this forum. As for the crux of the matter; I argued it 5 years ago, that if you allow financial incentive for people to post for post count sake, this is precisely what you will get; moderation cant stop it, at most slow it down a bit, but people will push the boundary of what moderators allow, diluting content for post count sake. Signal/noise will drop, causing knowledgeable and interesting posters to leave, further lowering S/N until it snowballs out of control. Q.E.D.

Gavin anderson:
Last Active:   April 21, 2016, 12:36:37 PM

DeathAndTaxes:
Last Active:   April 22, 2015, 11:53:28 AM

JoelKatz
Still seems to lurk, but hasnt posted in over a year.

etc, etc


These days, this forum is all noise, virtually no signal. Have fun moderating it.