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11 | 36.67% |
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09-28-2010, 07:17 PM
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Are you an Admin or Mod in another forum?
I'm sure our appreciation and esteem is higher in the case of people who do run or cooperate with other forums themselves. It is indeed a complicated task, no matter how big the userbase, to maintain a degree of civility in your own place against the hordes of threats coming from the internet, while trying to accomplish the goal that our forum has (whichever they can be). In my own case, I am currently a co-administrator of a Spanish politics forum, called Sólo Es Política. I started as a moderator in that forum and I was called to help, and here I am. Three years ago I joined another politics forum (Foro Política), which gave me a lot of nice experiences. However, the administrators made a huge mistake some months ago (elliminating all the non-political subforums) with which much of the userbase was enraged and I decided to quit, along with many other people. One of those former users brought many of us to a new project (SEP), geared to be what Foro Política should have been: a place for civilized political debate with its sections for politics, for discussing certain topics in depth and, last but no way least, to host the off-topic forums in which we could have a break and talk about the things which join us and not only the ones which split us. Aside of that, we've tried to become wider, trying to touch many fields (we started a blog, a FB account, even Twitter) and most important, we've engaged many users in the making of that community. In fact, it was some of the users who have been leading the process. Eventually we've had to move to our own server to lend a better service and to better accomodate the ideas of our users. We as admins have steered the initiatives of the users as well as we could. There have been clashes, but I'm confident now that we'll keep growing and making SEP a better forum. I think that Mobileread is a great example for forums around the world, and I would like SEP to take some of its virtues. And what about other people? What's your experience with managing/moderating a forum, if you have it?
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09-28-2010, 08:06 PM
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Location: Finally made it to Walmart.
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09-28-2010, 08:35 PM
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Grand Sorcerer
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Karma: 4245657
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Technically-speaking my other "forum" moderation duties are on a discussion mailing list (quite a few years now, and membership for about 12), though it feels like there are more similarities than differences.
Cheers, Marc |
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09-28-2010, 08:36 PM
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You kids get off my lawn!
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Location: Columbus, Ohio
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It was an email list, not a forum, but I figured it was close enough for a yes.
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09-28-2010, 08:43 PM
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Banned
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No and No
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09-28-2010, 10:31 PM
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Professional Adventuress
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Karma: 40406970
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Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!)
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I'm an administrator AND a moderator on another forum. this goes back to about 97
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09-29-2010, 06:22 AM
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Professor of Law
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Karma: 8213832
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Chapel Hill / Charlotte, NC
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I am an administrator and moderator on another site. specifically a web radio site.
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09-29-2010, 11:33 AM
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Student
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Karma: 598
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Jena
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I was an administrator and moderator on another site, it was a quite successful, little Warhammer Online Fanpage.
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"Jetzt haben wir also die Gewißheit, von der wir alle gehofft haben, sie bliebe uns erspart." K. Wallander Braucht ein dänisch-deutsch / dänisch-englisches Wörterbuch auf seinem PRS-650!  Sony bitte...Nimm den 650, du wirst es nicht bereuen.
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09-29-2010, 01:08 PM
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WWHALD
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Mitcham, Surrey, UK
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I've been an admin on one site, am currently something between an admin and a mod on another, and I think I'm still a mod on a few mailing lists....
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Am --- So long, and thanks for all the fish
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09-29-2010, 01:14 PM
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Banned
Posts: 13,053
Karma: 10105011
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Finally made it to Walmart.
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I was the owner of an xbox live forum with over 500 members. I quit doing that around a year and a half ago because my life got too complicated.
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09-29-2010, 01:18 PM
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Grand Sorcerer
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Location: Krewerd
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I'm a moderator on an international forum for a game. Each moderator has its own forum to moderate and if I was asked for the Off-topic forum, I'd probably have declined...
The problem of an international forum is mostly that people from all over the world have slightly different views about the correctness of things...
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09-29-2010, 01:43 PM
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Wizard
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Location: Northeast Ohio, USA
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Was a moderator on a pretty popular java programming site, it has been some years though
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09-29-2010, 03:33 PM
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Author
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Location: New Zealand
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Yes, I've been an admin. on another busy set of message boards for about eight years now. It makes me admire the Admins/Mods here all the more.
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09-29-2010, 06:45 PM
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↓↓ Skirt!! Earrings!!
Posts: 3,267
Karma: 13617816
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Georgia, USA
Device: Acer netbook, JetBook Lite, Sony PRS-300, Kindle 2, Kindle Fire
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I was an administrator for a couple of years on another site, but not now.
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09-30-2010, 01:29 AM
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Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 10,133
Karma: 4245657
Join Date: Nov 2007
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