Exploitation of the Contributers by N4G

( 13 Votes ) One thing we can all agree on is that most members here are reasonable and honest people, and are also people who believe that people should be treated fairly and equitably for their contribution to the site and the community.

N4G over the years has grown into a incredibly prosperous and successful site, This is due to the excellent work of the community which brings forth the content that drives the visitation to the site every day, and it is well known that this site now makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in advertising revenue for its owners and the staff and contributors.

How is this revenue created? it is created entirely by the labour and efforts of the contributors of this site. Without the contributor class, this site would not gain the wealth or the popularity that it gains today. This site would be dead in the water, and so would be the few people who are really profiting off of this site.

But who is the driving source of this revenue? it is not the owners of the site and its staff, who's efforts in the past few years have been comparitively miniscule to the top 10 contributers who have contributed countless tens of thousands of articles and kept this site alive and breathing with content, controversy and debate which has only lined the coffers of the elite and ruling classes of N4G.

It is a simple fact of life that labour is the source of all wealth and that this is certainly clear on N4G which solely relies on contributors to earn its bread and butter.

So why is it when the site is earning over $1000 a day that contributors like Bloodmask, Skynidas and Cyrus only get paid a few hundred dollars a month?? if the site earned $30,000 in revenue a month, and lets say $20,000 of it was profit, why is it that the contributors are only actually earning 5% of revenues while the elite on N4G get to have the 95%??

Why is is that these members who have contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars and tens of thousands of hours of labour to this site, much more time than the staff and elite on N4G who actually profit off of their labour do not get paid more and aren't allowed to have a bigger role and say in the site?? the way that these members are treated and then shunned from being allowed to have a more prominent role and more power in the community while gladly accepting the revenue they earn for you is frankly disgusting.

A comparable analogy would be the serfs of feudal times who had worked hard to produce a successful harvest had the landlord come along once a month and take 95% of their crops away from them, only allowing them to continue on subsistence level and not allowing them any rights or any power over their own affairs.

This has gotten to a point where it is disgusting, far worse than the type of capitalist exploitaiton we see in countries like China.


I don't expect the elite who run this site to ever give up all their money and profit that they have earned from people like Bloodmask and Skynidas over the years, or even to give up the majority of it. To think that they would is laughable as it has never been in the power of the ruling classes to ever give up what is fair.

But what is reasonable is that if these contributors actually earned more money every month for their hard work than what they are earning now. It would be fair to see their compensation double at least (in my opinion it should quadruple) as this is what they deserve for continuing to keep N4G alive and successful.

Furthermore, these people deserve more rights and status in the community. It is sad that they are continually exploited, looked over and ignored by the staff on this site for simple things like moderation of the main site or of the forums, or some greater editorial role in ensuring that quality news stories are created every day.

This doesn't really concern me since I don't earn a cent from contributing or from this site, but I do have a conscience and this is an issue I really have to speak out on.

This can't continue, these people deserve more.

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