I can’t believe there’s a community where, even for a second, having a specific kind of disagreement with the moderators and community (while also being a long-time contributor) results in considering a possibly-six-figure buyout.
It might help to think of LW as more like a small town’s newspaper (with paid staff) than a hobbyist forum (with purely volunteer labor), which considers issues with “business expense” lenses instead of “personal budget” lenses.
Yeah, that does seem like what LW wants to be, and I have no problem with that. A payout like this doesn’t really fit neatly into my categories of what money paid to a person is for, and that may be on my assumptions more than anything else. Said could be hired, contracted, paid for a service he provides or a product he creates, paid for the rights to something he’s made, paid to settle a legal issue… the idea of a payout to change part of his behavior around commenting on LW posts was just, as noted on my reply to habryka, extremely surprising.
It might help to think of LW as more like a small town’s newspaper (with paid staff) than a hobbyist forum (with purely volunteer labor), which considers issues with “business expense” lenses instead of “personal budget” lenses.
Yeah, that does seem like what LW wants to be, and I have no problem with that. A payout like this doesn’t really fit neatly into my categories of what money paid to a person is for, and that may be on my assumptions more than anything else. Said could be hired, contracted, paid for a service he provides or a product he creates, paid for the rights to something he’s made, paid to settle a legal issue… the idea of a payout to change part of his behavior around commenting on LW posts was just, as noted on my reply to habryka, extremely surprising.