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Re:  dedegen and my position on the mod squad

Dear @jacek,

In season 6, you rolled out a new system you hadn't quite properly thought through.  Last minute, you caved to the biggest whales.  You told users to lock up their precious degen and receive an allowance to do what they want with. 

So they did.  They opened up channels for "tip-for-tip" and "401k matching" (which you condoned).

You misaligned incentives with the site's most active users, and now degen is being exploited by the people you bent the knee to.

NOW, you have appointed a select group of people to clean up this mess with subjective standards and burdened us with the responsibility of deciding "what's right."

If you want to unlock people's money and change the rules, fine.  

But I won't be a part of this.

Sincerely, 
Burr

This is what I have wanted to write about this mess but I will also add that moderators are expected to do this for free.   

We are expected to slog through shitty casts for hours, then dig into the comments of these shitty casts and find offenders to tag them with spammy comments that don’t mean anything until FIVE mods find these shitty casts before anything might happen to the tips.  

I really don’t know what to think right now.  The decisions that have been made this season with no forethought as to what the consequences would be is stunning.

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First, I feel you, and what you’re saying.

Second, I think the goal here is to use this as an experiment.  The community is the best way to formulate a plan on how to figure out the most meaningful tips. 

While the timing isn’t the best. I feel like this should have been done a while ago.

The goal I think that is coming from @jacek and @cadillion is to get tipping back to solid tipping.  It might have had practices like /paidgroup and /tip4tip working in the past, but maybe it isn’t working now with the long term goals 

Just my 2 cents i suppose 

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