should tracker staff get paid?

[Skiz]

Sage advise:

You'll never get paid for a job that someone else is willing to do for free.

[KFlint]

Sage advise:

You'll never get paid for a job that someone else is willing to do for free.

one exception being : porn actors

[Polarbear]

Sage advise:

You'll never get paid for a job that someone else is willing to do for free.

one exception being : porn actors

yeah, coz y'all gotta be good to do that shit. like with the cam rollin and shit.

[mrnobody]

But we are not "selling" anything.

let's hope none of you (tracker staff) will ever have to debate this question with a highly paid prosecutor. i think he might beg to differ.

i didn't refer to bcg by the way. i don't even know wether you have a pay2leech system or not.

OiNK was accused of something like, "making money in the name of 'donations'". They even said OiNK membership could only be obtained by payment. And when torrentfreak wrote otherwise, the authorities responded something like "180,000 OiNK members must have been more generous then I expected ." wacko

The point is if authorities were to break into a tracker, they would not give a flying f about whether a tracker has P2l or not....they can make up their own stuff and people (plus media) will easily buy it. Yes, P2L might be additional cause for severe the punishment but how worse can it make?

editZ: oink bail extended to 10th lozl.

[Mareko]

Salary for staffers - that would have been great, lol.
Staffing is and should always be a hobby. Once u pay em you'll lose the dedication and the passion that most unpaid staff have.

[leafgxu]

In my opinion, in private tracker, we all share and devote for others, so everyone is a volunteer. The donation should just have to buy and maintain the server.

[Sanka113]

I think people in general should get paid if they're helping the owner make money. What I mean by this, is that if the site is making a profit off of advertising, donations, whatever; then, there should naturally be a distribution of wealth. This seemingly simple concept is at times hard to grasp ,which in turn, cause issues among management.

[helpme]

and what about uploaders keeping the site alive?

and people being active on IRC and forums keeping the community alive?

should we all get paid? don't think so otherwise it would be ever simpler to sue a tracker

Agree with what you say man

[dafunks]

I donate regularly to the sites I love and I feel deserve it, sites that are run by staff that have a genuine love for that they do, not sites that are blatantly cash cows. The sysops never know what is around the corner and what issues the sites they run will face, having additional money at hand could greatly aid in the likes of a quick site relocation.

Back on topic, no, I don't believe tracker staff should be paid, it should be done for the pure enjoyment of being part of a site they have a genuine love for. The minute people start doing it for money, it all goes to shit.

[Jim]

i think they should for providing a service to us but then again if the poop hits the fan and they arent payed its a lot easier to avoid the inevitable ! difficult one to call really