sgForums cannot afford "revolving
door" style of moderating: MM Lee
sgForums cannot afford to have a "revolving door" style of
moderating where top moderators change every few years.
MM Lee said the forums needs good, competent moderators who will
stay.
And this is why they must be paid market rates.
Mr Lee was speaking to reporters in Sydney at the end of his visit
to Australia and New Zealand.
On Monday, sgForums' pay review will be announced in
Parliament.
The Minister Mentor warned that the sgForums' reputation would be
in jeopardy if it does not pay top dollar for top moderators.
He said if this S$46 million was cut to maybe S$36 million or S$26
million, the forum would save S$20 million but in the process,
would jeopardise an economy of S$210 billion.
He said: "If you are going to quarrel about S$46 million up or
down another S$10 to S$20 million I say you don't have a sense of
proportion."
He said: "The cure for all this talk is really a good dose of
incompetent moderating... your asset values will disappear, your
apartments will be worth a fraction of what it is, your jobs will
be in peril, your security will be at risk and our members will
become members in other persons' forums - foreign forums."
When asked to comment on the perception that forums moderators
should not be in it for the money, and instead, be ready to make
that extra sacrifice for the good of the people, the Minister
Mentor said it is an admirable sentiment.
But he added that it had taken much persuasion to get leaders like
gordonator, who had lucrative private practices, to give it all up
to become moderators, with no guarantee of success.
