Nooo, You're belgian .

What i do like about this forum is that the mod's arent so strict, so you can post what you think.(of course, you shouldn't over do the freedom-of-speech thingy, but you catch my drift )

Yes, I am Belgian. Flemish to be exact

Well, we may not be the strictest... and in my case, my strictness also depends on the time (of the month) LOL (*sees all the guys run for cover*) No, serious. If we would be very strict the forum would not flourish as it does. But we do enforce some basic rules, especially the advertising, spamming and copying from sites to get more credits. Because after all, this is a business. Even though here at astahost.com there is no official payment. But you pay for the hosting nonetheless, in activity, sharing knowledge, helping out,... What better way to get hosting then while having fun

Sometimes I've had a lousy day and am in a really bad mood. Then I just browse through the fora, in my mod shoes And go for it, with a vicious strike LOL. But it sure feels good, to know that you've just got an abuser of the board

The criteria's pretty hard if you want to get accepted as a paid moderator on very big forums with many many members which is owned by companies. You need to be a recognised expert in that particular area.

LOL...Oh god...Being paid to be a mod...Tell me how that one goes...And you know if you ever find sucha place...You'll pm your old buddy SpaceWaste right ?

Nah...The people that get paid to work on forums are first of all normaly admins if anything...Cuz a mod's job is normaly just for kicks n such.

N secondly rearely are admins paid either...Unless they work on other parts of the website..For example helpdesk or some random thing like that.

Besides only companies making vast amounts of money can afford to hire people for things like moderators...And if they did they'd have a stricked requirement sheet...Plus probably only hire people that have been witht he company for a long time.

Oh well...Best of luck on your online jobsearch....Some companies do hire just to work online form your comp though...

Like nilsc said so himself that even when he's home he's working through his comp

People will be one day soon. We have ecommerce, people get paud for working there, it wont be long before working on a forum is like working ourside your home, heck you may goto the office boot up your linux box, open firefox and put down your coffee on some Windows free trials cd's you removed from packets. Then go onto your SMF forum and moderate it

I Googled "paid moderator" (with quotation marks) and to my surprise, there were 232 results. I saw that paid moderators do exist but they're rather rare.

As it turns out, running and maintaining a forum takes a lot of work and time out one's schedule. That's why forum owners need the assistance of admin assts. and moderators. IMO moderators are required if a forum owner wants to make his forum one of the best. Forums do have competition with other sites (in fact, it was mentioned that Astahost has competition that offers similar services, in another thread). Unmoderated or poorly moderated forums are not very responsive to their members needs. Problem members make questionable posts and are not held accountable. The forum's reputation suffers. This causes that forum's best current and potential members to migrate to forums with good reputations. I have seen this happen before.

Forums that grow and maintain a good reputation see their membership growing constantly. This means more eyeballs looking at the forum's content and more eyeballs looking at the ads on the forum. This in turn means an opportunity to make a little money. This is part of the reason why more and more websites are having forums added to their sites. As the demand for forums go up, the demand for moderators goes up. And you know what happens when the demand for a service goes up, right?

I guess Paid moderator system can be started For big forums.! As Paid ones surely make more hard work.!Im a hardworking too So Anyone ready to Hire me ??? LOL