I've had it. I'm ending my monthly donation to this board. nt

[patrice]

[Skinner]

1. OK.

Your monthly donation will be canceled later today.

Thank you for being a DU subscriber.

[patrice]

2. Is there anything in place here to identify & respond to the possibility

that your moderators could take money "under the table" for ___________________ ?

I know they are volunteers, but is there any effort at all to evaluate their analytic skills and personal approach to what they are doing? Or do you just take whomever you can get? No attempt to at least try to distribute that position across variations in assumptions and biases representative of users?

Performance reviews? Accountability of any kind? Count SOMETHING. It doesn't even have to be fancy or expensive, as long as some attempts are being made to identify what is going on.

This place is VERY skewed right now. I've seen a lot of stuff around here and THIS is NOT good. It isn't that I want opposed positions to go away; it IS that moderation appears pretty questionable right now in it's use of the deletes.

I'm very disappointed and sad for DU.

[Skinner]

3. I just posted in the moderator forum to ask them if anyone is getting paid under-the-table.

If so, I'll let you know.