I would certainly be unhappy if what was advertised to us as a long-term percentage benefit from doing the work to fill out the whitelist were suddenly done away with. I suppose if you wanted to scrap the whitelist concept but maintain share payments for the users who were evaluated that would be fine.
If I'm to be totally frank about it, you had several interested and talented whitelist moderators who would have been happy to have an expanded role and take up more of the work of the whitelist, and you decided to let us go without even talking to us ahead of time. That was a mistake, and it's a big part of what led to problems with the list being "polluted." We were the ones watching it, we were the ones looking ahead for future problems, and you decided that we were unnecessary. That turned out not to be true. I don't know if there's another generation of those out there, or if some of the others might be willing to return, but I would advise you to be looking in that direction.
I fully agree. There have been a number of persons who commited themselves to the White List and who's work was not valued enough.