Glad you're here, I wanted to discuss this in more detail anyway.

My reasoning is, and always has been, that the rules we as CM's make should primarily be for the well-being of the forum. The customers come second, the campaign participants come third and we as CM-s come last, we're compensated well enough for it.
The rule you make for 30 participants can easily turn into the general rule for all campaigns. Imagine the forum if everybody copied had that rule - it would be impossible to navigate. It is a dangerous one, and no matter the potential benefit to the company, I feel it should not be introduced.

I breezed through one of my favorite forum members, he's in MixTum - out of his last 20 posts, 15 are in threads considered to be 'megathreads'. I doubt these posts are being rejected (nor do I think they should be), so why is the rule there to begin with?

I'm really happy to hear that habits of the posters you chose did not change much, what I'm trying to say is that there are parts of the forum where that would be impossible.
Example - take 10 best posters on the gambling boards and look where they are writing. Every post I make in BSFL is read by 50 people, every post Trofo writes in Unijoin's PL Fantasy as well. I think that beats opening a 'How to recover from a big loss' thread - which I would have to start opening to get paid in Webmixer for example.
buwaytress, probably the best poster on the gambling boards, has 1 post out of his last 20 in 'accepted' threads. Trofo's got 0 out of 20. I've got 3, but just because I have a merit application opened in Meta - in gambling I have 0 as well.
You basically cannot write a post on Croatian local that would be outside of megathreads.

Then again, statistically, if that's what we want to be looking at - BSFL has 35.5k views and 4300 comments - which gives a 8.3 views per post ratio. Unijoin's Fantasy thread has a similar one.
2 threads under 15 pages I took at random (Is gambling all about luck?; Never gamble in front of your kids.) have 4.16 and 4.34 respectively - meaning that although BSFL and FPL are 'megathreads', a post there is twice as valuable (visible) than in threads considered OK for payment.

Both Trofo and myself are in your campaigns, so I know that you do look at it from another angle as well - but if I wasn't a forum regular and didn't PM you although it specifically states not to in the rules, I'd be without a campaign, although I feel that I deserve a decent one at least.
I know you'd probably accept most of my posts if I applied and got selected for Webmixer, but I really don't want to go against the rules that are stated there - and I know I would not change my writing style at all.

To conclude, please don't take it personally - it's just a topic on which we don't agree on, and that's ok. I think it's important to have a conversation about it though, not many people nowadays are willing to challenge an opinion of a popular campaign manager (which is kinda shitty as well).


I do agree that you're flexible, approachable and easy to work with. Not in the way in which local pervs crave though.