No Mind Warriors, No Off-Topic, And No Thanks Button

No telling what they'll do, but Alaister did say that the thanks button was staying. One thing I found interesting is the interest in a Life Hacking forum. I saw an ad for paid moderators for the WF now that there are new owners. The ad called the forum one of the premier "growth hacking" forums, along with other things and that amongst the members are Vice Presidents, Chief Marketing and Chief Growth Officers .... really?

Never heard the term growth hacking anywhere until now and I wonder who those Chief Growth Officers are? But I'm beginning to realize what was meant by changing the direction/culture of the forum in another post asking for Champion Warriors to direct the conversations here. Who knows what they will keep or add.



http://www.jobstreet.com.ph/jobs/201...38839.htm?fr=R

There's a huge amount of interest in Growth Hacking outside of IM.

The Definitive Guide to Growth Hacking

is a great guide to read about it.

50+ Growth Hacker Blogs to Follow – Zack Onisko

gives you 50 feeds you can add to your GrowthHacking Feedly folder if you want to follow it.

Interesting that the Make Money Online section is going to be a paid forum if the mock up is any indication. Half the threads started there get deleted as it is. Making it a paid forum could either kill it or clean it up so it's useful again. I have no idea which direction that would go.

As for paid moderators, that may be a good thing in the long run, but what does it mean for the mods who have kept this place going for years?

If they are taking these positions offshore and paying the staff, it will be a cold day in hell before I report a post again if our mods aren't given precedence. Our mods we have here now should have first dibbs and have their positions grandfathered into paid status before ANYONE else is hired here. Until I hear of Paul being given a shot at paid status, I'm done with member moderating. Period.

I've got a forum that I can make private forums, so if our OT crowd wants to migrate we can do that without anyone on my forum being invaded by non-related stuff if we decide we don't like what comes down on this one.

Kay - whether freelancer is US based or not, I feel the mods we have should be offered first shot at any lateral paid position. They have continued to wipe up spam for this company even after sale. If they are being compensated for doing so I have no problem with it - but if they are giving freebie service when not being considered for grandfathering in, I do. That's just the way I'm built. It's ultimately the new owners call, and you are right - we can vacate to anywhere we want. We always could. It's never been a prison. It's just a place we come because we have friends here and feel comfortable here. It's not going to make much difference what happens in the OT to the owners.

There's a few handsful of people who will be discomfortable here if things change in some ways and they might want to still be a WF member, but prefer to go elsewhere for the off the topic chatter. It's been kewl having Paul moderate this forum. He's intelligent, quick witted, and pretty muchly objective in his moderation. He's a good mix with this crowd. We don't know who's going to walk in and insist on what type of social order in here -- or even if there will be an OT a few months down the line. It would be good to have a set meeting place if this forum gets canned.

Ken Michaels (did I even start to spell that right?) has one that I've bookmarked just in case. I'm sure he wouldn't mind getting invaded by dozens of OTers. We're not destructive. Just hard headed. Anyhow if for any reason there is suddenly an OT or suddenly a reason that I can't get back in here for any reason - I'll be at forum/digitalspeakeasy dot com. Not going to live link that one in here for reasons of discretion. But if anyone gets ousted here either accidentally or because they want to - that's where I'll look for ya'll.

My guess is that most, if not all of the current moderators would not be interested in the paid positions. They are hiring the Philippines people, which means, at least to me, that the pay probably sucks for the time spent on the job ... and they do have to take designated shifts. Not likely that the current mods would want to be shackled to a full time, low paying position (for the US and considering the success of many of the mods).

As for member moderators, I'll most likely report stuff as I see it. Doesn't take much time to do that, but I'm not shackled to it. Let the full timers do the digging.

They have not indicated in any way that OT will disappear, so I think speculation is just that ... speculation.

I've already noticed a trend in moderation in the OT section. There have been several threads that were abruptly closed mostly because of one over the top post. Instead of removing that post, the reaction was to close the thread. These threads probably would have been closed sooner or later, since the really hot topics tend to go that way, but in two cases, it seemed premature.

Paul wrote a really great post here
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post9178628

and covered some of the problems with new hired moderators as opposed to moderators who know this forum from start to finish. Here's the relevant part of the post as it relates to paid moderation.

But, Paul never sleeps.