MM Lee: sgForums moderators to get a pay rise

• Gordonator

  9 Apr 07, 23:17

  sgForums cannot afford "revolving door" style of moderating: MM Lee
  
  sgForums cannot afford to have a "revolving door" style of moderating where top moderators change every few years.
  
  MM Lee said the forums needs good, competent moderators who will stay.
  
  And this is why they must be paid market rates.
  
  Mr Lee was speaking to reporters in Sydney at the end of his visit to Australia and New Zealand.
  
  On Monday, sgForums' pay review will be announced in Parliament.
  
  The Minister Mentor warned that the sgForums' reputation would be in jeopardy if it does not pay top dollar for top moderators.
  
  He said if this S$46 million was cut to maybe S$36 million or S$26 million, the forum would save S$20 million but in the process, would jeopardise an economy of S$210 billion.
  
  He said: "If you are going to quarrel about S$46 million – up or down another S$10 to S$20 million – I say you don't have a sense of proportion."
  
  He said: "The cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent moderating... your asset values will disappear, your apartments will be worth a fraction of what it is, your jobs will be in peril, your security will be at risk and our members will become members in other persons' forums - foreign forums."
  
  When asked to comment on the perception that forums moderators should not be in it for the money, and instead, be ready to make that extra sacrifice for the good of the people, the Minister Mentor said it is an admirable sentiment.
  
  But he added that it had taken much persuasion to get leaders like gordonator, who had lucrative private practices, to give it all up to become moderators, with no guarantee of success.
• turbo_drift

  9 Apr 07, 23:18

  
• laurence82

  9 Apr 07, 23:20

  woopee
  
  and my boss giving me pay raise
  
  i am getting super rich
  
  soon will reach wee cho yaw position, then take over the world
  
  
• turbo_drift

  9 Apr 07, 23:21

  Originally posted by laurence82:

  woopee
  
  and my boss giving me pay raise
  
  i am getting super rich
  
  soon will reach wee cho yaw position, then take over the world
  
  

  Than can treat me pee-membership 4eva..
• duotiga83

  9 Apr 07, 23:21

  Originally posted by laurence82:

  woopee
  
  and my boss giving me pay raise
  
  i am getting super rich
  
  soon will reach wee cho yaw position, then take over the world
  
  

  can i???can i???? gundam mod so consider or not?
• mhcampboy

  9 Apr 07, 23:22

  Ahh, my pension benefits will rise too.
  
  Can buy new castle.
• NewAge

  9 Apr 07, 23:22

  
  
  Mod's Note: One is enough lar
  
  
• laurence82

  9 Apr 07, 23:23

  Originally posted by turbo_drift:

  Than can treat me pee-membership 4eva..

  u also mods
  
  i treat u for what?
• turbo_drift

  9 Apr 07, 23:23

  Originally posted by laurence82:

  u also mods
  
  i treat u for what?

  
• Gordonator

  9 Apr 07, 23:24

  Originally posted by laurence82:

  woopee
  
  and my boss giving me pay raise
  
  i am getting super rich
  
  soon will reach wee cho yaw position, then take over the world
  
  

  ah lau is gahman's lackey ah? get pay rise?
• Gordonator

  9 Apr 07, 23:26

  hey newage, can u please don't post such a long string of pics?
  
  it's making the whole page very long.
  
  can u or ah lau please help to edit asap?
• laurence82

  9 Apr 07, 23:27

  Originally posted by duotiga83:

  can i???can i???? gundam mod so consider or not?

  sgforums mod
  
  as long as u sgforums mod can ler
  
  lai lai, lets all celebrate
  
  campy shall dance naked for us
  
  
• laurence82

  9 Apr 07, 23:28

  Originally posted by Gordonator:

  hey newage, can u please don't post such a long string of pics?
  
  it's making the whole page very long.
  
  can u or ah lau please help to edit asap?

  chiu one min too late lar
  
  
• The man who was death

  9 Apr 07, 23:59

  Originally posted by laurence82:

  woopee
  
  and my boss giving me pay raise
  
  i am getting super rich
  
  soon will reach wee cho yaw position, then take over the world
  
  

  u are not brain in pinky and the brain.....
• stellazio

  10 Apr 07, 00:11

  
• Pitot

  10 Apr 07, 06:16

  
• NewAge

  10 Apr 07, 11:33

  Originally posted by Gordonator:

  hey newage, can u please don't post such a long string of pics?
  
  it's making the whole page very long.
  
  can u or ah lau please help to edit asap?

  woops sorry. Too emotional liao tat why. thank you laurence.
• DeadPoet

  10 Apr 07, 11:40

  
• charlize

  10 Apr 07, 11:42

  Damn mods.
  
  No integrity.
  
  This forum is going down.
  
  Down I say.
  
  
• Gordonator

  10 Apr 07, 13:04

  *walks toward ATM machine*
  
  *insert bankbook*
  
  *press update bankbook*
  
  *looks at bankbook*
  
  *smiles and walk away*
• mhcampboy

  10 Apr 07, 13:06

  Originally posted by Gordonator:

  *walks toward ATM machine*
  
  *insert bankbook*
  
  *press update bankbook*
  
  *looks at bankbook*
  
  *smiles and walk away*

  oh? money in already ar?
  
  must go check my offshore acct now!
• charlize

  10 Apr 07, 13:09

  Originally posted by Gordonator:

  *walks toward ATM machine*
  
  *insert bankbook*
  
  *press update bankbook*
  
  *looks at bankbook*
  
  *smiles and walk away*

  I think another revision is scheduled at the end of the year too.
  
  
• Gordonator

  10 Apr 07, 13:20

  Originally posted by mhcampboy:

  oh? money in already ar?
  
  must go check my offshore acct now!

  today is the 10th mah.
• laurence82

  10 Apr 07, 14:01

  Originally posted by charlize:

  Damn mods.
  
  No integrity.
  
  This forum is going down.
  
  Down I say.
  
  

  sgforums, or noiseology alone?
• Gordonator

  10 Apr 07, 22:28

  btw MM Lee also mentioned that only moderators of the top 20 forums will get the pay rise cos everyone can just create a forum of their own.