[3] Sysops typically do not earn money, but donate their activity to the community.
In general, a sysop is a person who oversees the operation of a server, typically in a large computer system.
Usage of the term became popular in the late 1980s and 1990s, originally in reference to BBS operators.
[1] A person with equivalent functions on a network host or server is typically called a sysadmin, short for system administrator.
Hence, the term sysadmin is technically used to distinguish the professional position of a network operator.