I myself am willing to moderate for free if I were will be given a chance. It's not just about the pay, I'm more concerned about the reputation.
If you are willing to gain reputation of the community by moderating a sub-forum then its totally a bad way of gaining trust from fellow members. Trust and reputation should come eventually on a person and if anyone trying to
voluntarily gain them in the name of doing some welfare for the forum I wouldn't trust them forever.
To be quite true I have been reporting and meriting 100s of posts in my local board but has never uttered a word about the same and nor I was willing to say that. All I revealed is when someone from my local board PMd me to post in this topic : Let's vote for a new mod for India. Also if someone starts reporting posts as soon as knowing that reports are one of the key factors for appointing a moderator, I wouldn't trust them either even though they have been made a moderator.
This is an utter lie.
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I don't really post anything on the Indian board but I am a regular visitor to merit few good posts (which I rarely find) and trash the shit present out there. From what I have identified after 9 months of reporting hundreds of posts is that