As for the folks cancelling their EraClear in protest that staff were robbed, you are free to send that to any staffer of your choosing. Our CashApps are open. 😌
How was this not a thing from the beginning? Anyway,
Mods you have to realize that even if we butt heads sometimes (most) of us don't hate you, and this "mods should get payed" thing is coming from a good place, as it should be clear from the amount of posts, and the diversity of users advocating for it. You HAVE to understand this. Just because someone was rude to you in the past, even if it is the same person who is now on this camp, doesn't invalidate this point. People will always get mad when they're banned, you can't latch onto that.
The value of Era is not on the users, like some have said, it's on the moderation team. Without the mods this place would be just like any other forum, that is, unreadable for someone who isn't a white cis straight male. I hope mods realize this, they could all move and make a new Forum and people would follow them. Not saying they (you) should do it, but be aware of this.
Moving on, the issue of mods getting payed is a perceived issue of fairness. People are mad because they think it should be fair that you, the backbone of the forum, get some kind of compensation, and are totally flabbergasted at someone cashing in millions of dollars and not sharing it with you. Someone who was your boss but also your friend, at least in our understanding. It doesn't have to do with anything else no there's no point in conflating other issues with it. I still hope you will somehow be, even if it is as a parting gift. So because people think it's unfair, they don't understand why so many of you are defending Cerium. Again not an attack on the mods, but an issue of perceived unfairness, squared. "He is not paying you, and you are defending him?". People don't understand it.
Now the saddest part of it all is when mods get mad at people trying to defend them and people get mad at mods for not allowing to be defended. Both get really indignant at each other because both camps come from the right place. Again, an issue of perceived unfairness, and that's a tricky issue.
And this is were the discussion gets stucked.
Finally there's the whole new argument of what to do moving forward, should mods get payed now that they're working for a corporation? I think yes, but is better not to mix arguments and discuss this issue in another post.
TLDR; The community appreciates the mods much more than they show on a daily basis, as they are the backbone of Era and they really think it would be fair to them to get some kind of compensation. For whatever reason the mods/user dialogue has gotten stuck and we should try to resolve this.
