I sent this to G, but wanted to put it here too so my thoughts are public:
G - this is of course up to you, and I will continue to be on TPB and use my purchased mod powers occasionally as I do now either way.
right now, IF it were a vote, my vote would be “no”. We have a great crew here IMO, and I don’t know who sent you the inside info, but if that person is legit and will continue to share info, we honestly have everything we need.
opening this thing up to the masses opens us up to internal (and external) politics, taters, and potentially the need to have set rules and enforce them. Look, we are basically self governed here. There are virtually no rules here, yet we’ve had virtually no issues to date. Everyone, for the most part, gets along great. I’d like to keep it that way. I just feel like opening this place up to more opens up more headaches, that’s just me. Obviously you may have higher ambitions for this board, and I can certainly understand that as you own the site.
if it’s about needing to offset the costs of the site, I am happy to contribute at any time (as I said in my DM to you the other day) - just let me know where things stand once @Jim Numbers gets done running his spreadsheets.
just my 0.02.