Does mods get pay?
It seems not. A particularly stupid and anti-social one with handle of alaric something or other, mentioned in reply to my criticism about him not doing what he should have done:
“As a moderator, I certainly have the option to decide whether to move a message or a set of messages to a new thread, but such a task requires more of my (unpaid) time to do when the goal is to preserve existing threads and keep them on track”.
Yeah, whatever. If you don’t do a proper job just don’t do it at all! Not getting paid does of course attract those who seek power and/or ego stroking in some situations, the type of people who shouldn’t be in power.
If you want to have a laugh, I analysed the inane and anti-social + inane responses respectively of -virgil (you may find my scoring system for his reply amusing) and alaric something or other, here:
https://swhs.home.xs4all.nl/fiets/kritiek/cpf/index_en.html
I’m not going to check out alpg88’s hint on what happens now on cpf, that website is on my forever-boycott list, but what he describes is amusing. Faking of messages wouldn’t surprise me as it fits with ego stroking, possibly even with making sure they will continue there after the sale of the site with the new owner possibly reviewing them…
When others in this thread mentioned other moderators they had issues with I was thinking: “why are there so many moderators?”…
That all of them are a-holes doesn’t surprise me at all though, that comes from ‘greta’ who selected people who are similar to her… (see my previous message too about such behaviour).
I used to use Adblock Plus but switched to Ublock Origin. It’s been so long I forgot why or what shortcoming I was addressing, but I have no complaints with Ublock Origin.
Marky Mark refers to Mark Wahlberg not Zuckerberg
Not in my reference. Mark Wahlberg is Dirk Diggler. 
Someday I might post a review of my truck lights. I have 12 illegal light bars and 2 legal rigid fog lights. Those mods would probably permaban me lmfao.
Virgil and Allaric or whatever would literally have a coronary.
usually no…
Ive modded (supermod) on mtbr.com
That site is HUGE with a ton of traffic….I am dormant there for a few years, but there was never pay.
one mod was a rep for Niner and offered any mod team member, a bike a cost, and Gregg the owener(he has since sold the site) would offer mods mfr swag they accumulated.
things like socks, shirts or other minor items…
I’m getting mails from CPF alerting me to new posts; I haven’t been active on there in years.
I "was" a member of CPF, but no longer. It appears my login details have been removed from there by them, possibly because I hadn't logged in there for a few years or so?
I have noticed a change in the way CPF handles images
they now take images I upload, and automatically replace them with a thumbnail (small image).
the full size image is only available IF logged in to CPF
iow, CPF is appropriating images and hosting them on their own site
this fits with the objective of CPF to limit info sharing to people who are members…
CPF wont show full size images anymore, unless the viewer is a logged in member
my reaction is to stop posting,
since my pics are not being shown in the size I posted, and my pictures are being appropriated and loaded onto CPF servers, automatically… (no longer optional)
They’ve always had nutty rules, I guess it’s continuing?
Chris
And what the hell is with that new “airing out HDS’s dirty laundry” thread of pure dogpiling? No forum with sane moderation that I’ve ever been a part of would allow this, it would be shut down on sight.
Wow, one more reason to avoid CPF. 
How tiny are the thumbnails?
Who is HDS and why would they air dirty laundry ?
Iunno, ask that Hogokanshakalaka guy that’s working full-time as a launderer
As i recall in Japan many years ago they had ATMs that would wash money so it would be clean.
In retrospect hat would have been great for covid.
Couldn’t you just link to say a gallery on Imgur? No thumbnails, but non-members could just open the link and view the images. Or would that not be allowed?
dont know… but defeats my purpose, which is to share free info…
I do use gallery links on Reddit cause I cant post pics inline
I was about to try posting an imgur gallery link on CPF, by editing an existing post, but it seems editing is no longer possible… on a 1 week old post…
seems CPF really wants to own my posts, and does not want to let me change them…
here is a link to a FWAA gallery of mine
https://imgur.com/a/FmR9Qje
but I prefer to post pics in thread… more effective than a link… people dont click links much
fwiw, in my old CPF posts, pics are still there, inline and full size
what CPF is doing now, follows the change in ownership and web software… designed to deliver targetted ads, and to create a proprietary database of flashlight info, sales prices, and images…
fwiw, the new owner has been a CPF member since 2005… I dont expect a change in culture, nor moderators… as you can see from Hogos laundry confrontations, with the support of several of the moderators.
that is something that has always seemed wrong to me, when CPF moderators pile on in a thread, to attack a member they disagree with.
it only started to make sense when I realized they are in it for the money
CPF mods protect the vendors and advertisers from negative comments by individual consumers.
the new website changes are designed to monetize info posted there
