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RE: Have you been a forum administrator? - Cee Lo Green - 01-14-2011
I've managed a lot of forums, big and small. The biggest being about 560,000 posts. The smallest being just a couple of thousand. I learnt to be a little more lenient... You don't have to get ban/warning happy just because a small, minor rule was broken by a new member.
RE: Have you been a forum administrator? - Hollow™ - 01-15-2011
I have been and I learned to be more active and post with consideration of being HQ.
RE: Have you been a forum administrator? - JohnRonder - 01-15-2011
I was admin on quite a few sites, even moderator on a couple of "big" sites, which I won't mention due to what there about. But what I learnt? The world is tough, people lie and moderating is bloody time consuming ! Hehe
RE: Have you been a forum administrator? - w00pz - 02-11-2011
I've been admin on several forums.
I gained alot of knowledge with forums such as MyBB, vBulletin, phpBB and alot of other systems .
I think i am pretty good doing what a admin should do
RE: Have you been a forum administrator? - Eve - 02-14-2011
(02-11-2011, 03:59 PM)Rand0m™ Wrote: I've been admin on several forums.
I gained alot of knowledge with forums such as MyBB, vBulletin, phpBB and alot of other systems .
I think i am pretty good doing what a admin should do
Share a few tips from your experience.
RE: Have you been a forum administrator? - Griffin - 02-15-2011
Yes I've had some experience with running my own Vbulletin based forum, although working equally with both your members and staff would be a good tip as well as posting regularly keeping your member base updated.
RE: Have you been a forum administrator? - Crow - 02-16-2011
What I've learned as staff on HF served me well as an admin as well, which is professional behavior. That is, to deal with issues with patience, and be polite to people, regardless of how I feel at the moment. It's not as easy as it may seem at first to ignore your own ego/emotions and replace them with the community's values when representing the said community.
RE: Have you been a forum administrator? - Swat Runs Train - 02-16-2011
I moderate a forum focused around content I can't discuss here, it definitely requires a far different style of moderation than the norm, it's also invite only, which is kind of nice, banned members are pretty much gone for good (we don't do temp bans).
RE: Have you been a forum administrator? - Knight - 02-16-2011
I've been a mod, never an administrator however. I don't know if I could handle the power.
RE: Have you been a forum administrator? - Example - 02-17-2011
Hmm...
I never was an administrator,
but I am a moderator on www.**************.com
(linking to a forum with illegal activities on it can risk a warning or a ban)