Developers getting payed

[Broccoli]

Feel like I should provide some input here

I'm personally not a fan of developers being paid not for the reasons that others have provided though.
I feel like if developers got paid for their work on a commission basis, it would create bias and unfairness within the team as others might get paid more for less work because they took longer or such. There is the obvious to turn it into an actual job with a salary which would then restrict development and force projects to be out at a certain time, which no developer wants.

I always saw Fearless as an opportunity, somewhere where I could expand my skills and that in itself was my reward for making code for the server.

I personally think it's an unfair assumption to compare both development work and administrator work and to say that they both deserve something or neither get anything. I guess it is bias for me to say but it's definitely easier to administrate than develop and requires little to no prior skill with administrator work in the past. Sure it's great if you know how to properly administrate, but all the developers and contributors I've come across in my time have all had previous experience and never had to be taught anything which makes me think they kinda deserve money more than voluntary administration work. Don't get me wrong, myself and others have definitely wanted to develop voluntarily but if anyone deserves money out of this, it is definitely developers. An admin decides how long he wants to administrate for in a day, a developer has no clue how long a project will take.

And to those who think that some development is just modifying scripts or taking things from the steam workshop then yeah that is necessary sometimes and definitely shouldn't be rewarded and instead the real creators should be rewarded. I'm not gonna lie to you and say it's hard work to do that kind of thing, but there are definitely things like the delivery system and other plugins/scripts coded from scratch which I've seen the code for and can definitively say that they deserve some kind of reward if wanted.

As a final thought, I personally also don't think this sort of thing should be up for community discussion as it is up to the development team whether or not they want to be rewarded for their work.

Just my two cents