Am writing this not to create a tension or to elicit negative attack, but to share my concern about the moderators we have right now on read.cash.
I have not been able to really do anything meaningful here for a couple of days now due to some illness, but never a moment have passed that I don't check in here to see what is going on in the Communities that I moderate. This is because I have the interest of the Communities in my heart. And each time I checked in, there are always numbers of submission waiting for approval. My thought about this, is that if moderators would have to come online often even when they don't have any interest for work, but just to ensure that the Communities keep running, I think they deserve some commendation for reward, and in essence a review of moderators status at read.cash.
Curating a platform such as read.cash is not an easy task. If moderators go oblivious, Communities become stranded and people get discouraged. I have even seen some post here about users attacks on Communities moderators for ignoring their submissions. If only everyone would know what sacrifice moderators have to make to do the work of moderating now on read.cash, I don't think anyone would attack any moderators.
Moreover, the time spent in checking articles for any violation on publishing rules before approval is enough for someone to write a post and do something else to earn points. We know the OC detector is doing its work, but we should know that it's not the work of the detector to check for quality and curating. All of these requires serious effort that I think deserve reward.
Now it doesn't matter whether you submit to a community or not before recieving points, yet we need to submit to a community because that's where the engagement come from. If the person who submit to a community earn from engagement generated from his or her article through the Community, I think those who watch over the community also deserve some reward.
We have seen how things have envolved on read.cash to this very moment. Spamming has been curbed, plagiarism and low quality articles have also been drastically reduced. All of these were possible because of read.cash tenacity to purge the platform and make it befitting international standard as it is. To keep read.cash in the present state, moderators has a lot of contribution to make, which they are doing presently.
Though most moderators allow just any post into their Communities, there are those who still play by the rules by ensuring only original and quality articles find their way into the Communities. A lot of moderators abandoned their Communities during the featured Communities episode, but some honest moderators stayed even when their Communities wasn't featured. Thought is that they want to build their Communities for it to be featured. Then moderator's reward was removed, yet they stay put in the Communities. This kind of people who believe in what they are doing deserve reward.
Finally, I will love to suggest that @Read.Cash should look into the Communities again, and check out those moderators who are doing a nice job curating their Communities, and work a method of reward for them.
I love to know your opinion about this on the comments section.
In my opinion well moderated communities will survive and growth, bad moderated will died. There is no need to change how its works.