Originally Posted by
MrAakash
Nope, we receive nothing extra for being a part of the staff if it's not required for doing our job. It's all voluntary work.
Mind you, that does actually tend to include some of the more useful features of TP/VIP. For example, super moderators: They don't get either the background or the ability to change their user title whenever, but they do get the TP/VIP boards. They get animated avatars but no sigpics, but in some ways they get fairly long signatures. And obviously, they get search.
So, in the long run, there's still a point for smods to buy TP/VIP, if they want those aesthetic features.