as soon as they put money/profit/etc. over the health of the free flow of ideas, then it's a BIG TIME loss.
Yeah, Codex is a money making machine from what I hear. DU rolls around in a limo filled with stacks of cash, like a certain S. McDuck.
Moderating/staffing an active message board is a job of SERVICE to the community
Shit, I hope the mods stop getting paid so well for their time then.
While I don't know you and certainly don't think you're retarded, have you considered the possibility that you're just retarded?
This is the problem right here with how a lot of community's are run. Just because mods aren't being paid doesn't mean they should be allowed to shit on the community and start pushing any buttons they want and giving zero fucks about their actions. Also just because there's no direct transfer of money from user to site admins doesn't mean we should all just shut up and be censored and watch one of our fav. hobby sites go to shit. But this site is built off the back of the user generated content that brings the traffic and ultimately however much money keeps the site running. The admins of the site are responsible and are applauded and adulated for creating a site we all love to contribute to, but the users are also responsible for the site's growth based on the passionate contributions of the many here. It's a symbiotic relationship between users and admins.
It's frustrating when you've contributed somewhere for many years and then ownership of the site will completely SHIT ON the users by taking away long time features or adding draconian rules/processes that impact the ability to contribute or start censoring/filtering content that used to be ok in order to make the site more advertiser or publisher friendly etc. etc. etc.
I'm not even saying that the Codex has crossed any lines yet but i have seen some suspect moves being made and I'm hoping it ends there and doesn't continue to go in that direction.
