Most business decisions are based on the PIA:reward index. People will take a fun job at relatively low pay. On the other hand, if the work is a huge PIA, you have to pay someone a lot of money to do it.
The PIA:reward index of the O’club has finally reached HTC’s threshold of Johnny Paychecking the whole thing.
I' guessing the reward value of the O’club is fairly low for HTC but includes things like increasing traffic, keeping off-topic posts from the other areas, and giving Nate and Superfly something to do instead of surf for porn when they are supposed to be working. As long as the PIA factor was pretty low, the O-club was worth keeping.
But there are two problems. Number one is a group of drive-by trolls who get their chuckles by behaving like the south end of a north-bound horse. They have to constantly one-up the other trolls, which increases the PIA: reward index because HTC has to constantly watch for and remove this silliness from their board
Letter B is a group of overhyped moralists who seem to think the have an inborn right to never be offended by someone who disagrees with them. This further increases the PIA:reward index because they email and phone HTC to complain that their feelings are hurt by something they saw on the internt.
I don’t think volunteer moderators are the answer. I worry HTC will just have to constantly oversee the moderators, not to mention dealing with all the complaints regarding how the board is moderated. This will just drive the PIA:reward index higher than Skuzzy’s blood pressure.
I think the only workable option is for the users to moderate themselves. Anyone with any sense understands the rules. Either we can follow them or we can’t.
Pyro’s just threatened to pull this car over. If we can’t take the hint and get our feces collated, they should just pull the plug for good.
