Martin_Stahl wrote:
The moderator account has Diamond features and It's recommended moderators keep their regular account which gets Diamond.
So you do get paid compensation of some type.
Why aren’t chess.com moderators paid?
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May 5, 2024
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IsraeliGal wrote:
Martin_Stahl wrote:
The moderator account has Diamond features and It's recommended moderators keep their regular account which gets Diamond.
So you do get paid compensation of some type.
I'm saving $99 a year I would have otherwise spent to have diamond (+ a little tax in the last couple of years).
Based on the time I spend, it's a little compensation.
No wonder you don’t think chess.com should send renewal notices for annual subscriptions. Even though it’s the law in California chess.com doesn’t send them. Why not?
Martin_Stahl wrote:
IsraeliGal wrote:
Martin_Stahl wrote:
The moderator account has Diamond features and It's recommended moderators keep their regular account which gets Diamond.
So you do get paid compensation of some type.
I'm saving $99 a year I would have otherwise spent to have diamond (+ a little tax in the last couple of years).
Based on the time I spend, it's a little compensation.
the bottom line is you said you get no financial compensation when in reality you actually do. You aren't doing a real job, like you said your hours and times are completely up to you, so the point stands, being a forum mod shouldn't be a paid occupation, yet you still get paid, in the form of free diamond membership.
So this post is moot now.
IsraeliGal wrote:
You aren't doing a real job, like you said your hours and times are completely up to you
You think freelancers are not doing a "a real job"? Or do you have to be stuck in meetings that have very little to do with you for it to be a "real job"?! I really hope you are not a recruiter or someone's boss.
Maybe we should worry less about free labor and freelancing and more about Free Palestine.
Spawney wrote:
Maybe we should worry less about free labor and freelancing and more about Free Palestine.
I thought politics wasn't allowed in the chess.com forum?
Spawney wrote:
Maybe we should worry less about free labor and freelancing and more about Free Palestine.
Palestine was just a name the British empire gave Israel during their occupation which ended in 1948 , The British got fed up with babysitting for Arabs who were supporting Nazi germany at the time , so they left and issued a partition plan. At that point the concept of Palestine ended: The land was divided between two new lands: Israel and Trans-Jordan.
So this whole made up concept of "Palestine" is not even Arab in origin and safe to say that the land was liberated by Israel during the liberation war, which wasn't a war Israel started but it ended up in liberation. So all these calls to "Free Palestine" make absolutely no sense , not from a historical perspective and not from present day perspective.
Just tell everyone the truth : That you think Western civilization is evil and you want to destroy it. You don't have to pretend that you are worried about freeing a fictional country that only ever existed in the minds of Nazi supporting Arabs and the British empire they've opposed.
Well said
May 6, 2024
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IsraeliGal wrote:
the bottom line is you said you get no financial compensation when in reality you actually do. You aren't doing a real job, like you said your hours and times are completely up to you, so the point stands, being a forum mod shouldn't be a paid occupation, yet you still get paid, in the form of free diamond membership.
So this post is moot now.
Yeah, it's a form of savings. Probably less than a penny per hour worth of compensation 🤔
Wait how did this happen .... Why do I have a feeling the Internet doesn't know anything
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Arma3WorldConflict wrote:
IsraeliGal wrote:
You aren't doing a real job, like you said your hours and times are completely up to you
You think freelancers are not doing a "a real job"? Or do you have to be stuck in meetings that have very little to do with you for it to be a "real job"?! I really hope you are not a recruiter or someone's boss.
what you just said was completely irrelevant. You don't seem to understand how jobs work. there has to be a market for it. For example mechanics exist because people have cars and they need someone highly skilled in working with cars to fix any problems with them, so therefore they get paid for their services.
There's never been a precedent set for forum mods to not make money, its not considered a real job. You might think it deserves to be a job, but many people think all sorts of activities should be a payed activity, doesn't mean they will or should be.
IsraeliGal wrote:
Arma3WorldConflict wrote:
IsraeliGal wrote:
You aren't doing a real job, like you said your hours and times are completely up to you
You think freelancers are not doing a "a real job"? Or do you have to be stuck in meetings that have very little to do with you for it to be a "real job"?! I really hope you are not a recruiter or someone's boss.
what you just said was completely irrelevant. You don't seem to understand how jobs work. there has to be a market for it. For example mechanics exist because people have cars and they need someone highly skilled in working with cars to fix any problems with them, so therefore they get paid for their services.
There's never been a precedent set for forum mods to not make money, its not considered a real job. You might think it deserves to be a job, but many people think all sorts of activities should be a payed activity, doesn't mean they will or should be.
No you don't understand there is a market for it, remote market, There are ads of people hiring for that. You now just don't want to admit that you are wrong so you repeat the same cheesy insults. I've already explained to you where there is a demand for moderators and pointed out examples of companies hiring to fill these roles. Obviously I'm not talking specifically about chess.com. What more is there to say?
Sometimes moderators are free sometimes they are paid either way it is a choice
Arma3WorldConflict wrote:
IsraeliGal wrote:
Arma3WorldConflict wrote:
IsraeliGal wrote:
You aren't doing a real job, like you said your hours and times are completely up to you
You think freelancers are not doing a "a real job"? Or do you have to be stuck in meetings that have very little to do with you for it to be a "real job"?! I really hope you are not a recruiter or someone's boss.
what you just said was completely irrelevant. You don't seem to understand how jobs work. there has to be a market for it. For example mechanics exist because people have cars and they need someone highly skilled in working with cars to fix any problems with them, so therefore they get paid for their services.
There's never been a precedent set for forum mods to not make money, its not considered a real job. You might think it deserves to be a job, but many people think all sorts of activities should be a payed activity, doesn't mean they will or should be.
No you don't understand there is a market for it, remote market, There are ads of people hiring for that. You now just don't want to admit that you are wrong so you repeat the same cheesy insults. I've already explained to you where there is a demand for moderators and pointed out examples of companies hiring to fill these roles. Obviously I'm not talking specifically about chess.com. What more is there to say?
Show one example where forum mods are payed money.
They get memberships for free. I think that's fair enough.
Um.
Seriously ?
A friggin $99 per year is "pay" for some people here ?
In Germany with currently a minimal wage of 12.xx euro per hour that would be about 8 hours of work, ignoring any taxes. For a whole year.
Plus you dont actually see any of that money, only get site features representing this value. Which is probably cheaper than the actual cost you cause chess.com, since this is a private business and they are supposed to make profit.
Its a recognition, sure. But not pay.
Because being a moderator on Chess.com is a choice, not something you are forced to do.