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The users are the customer. This is not up for debate as you obviously don't understand business models or web traffic
By looking at adverts and contributing towards site traffic, I am providing the company with money directly and indirectly as they could sell their services (access to students etc) to other companies. How else do you think forums earn money? Magic?
What does it matter if you are members as well and if you do or do not get paid...? Does that mean there should be no accountability and transparency in your actions?
Which part about "transparency" and "accountability" are you guys failing to understand? At the moment with it all being a closed door process, it means anything can happen and that's not good for anyone is it? If you were concerned about providing a quality service, you would have already implemented this system. The fact you are trying to argue that those traits are little more than curiosity is alarming.
If you worked in a company you would realise that it's not a dreadful idea, it's an essential idea for good moderation. Mods are accountable to SL, and CT, but it's entirely behind closed doors with almost certainly a huge amount of bias. The CT won't want to disagree with essentially free labour, and likewise the moderation community won't want to disagree on topics at it makes their life easier and keeps their reputation untarnished.
If there's one statistic that will prove how poor the moderation is, look at how many cards are issued, how many are overturned, and then
the training given to the moderators. Now, unless they have found a generation of supermensch, I suspect that something very ****ed up is going on behind the scenes, but as long as you people think transparency isn't needed, then we will never know.