Are you an Admin or Mod in another forum?

Logseman · 09-28-2010, 07:17 PM

I'm positive that we all appreciate and thank the administrators and moderators of this site for keeping it clean and friendly, that task being harder by the fact that both the userbase and the managers are scattered all around the world, and the number of users is huge.

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?

happy_terd · 09-28-2010, 08:06 PM

Yes

I am not allowed to list the sites.

montsnmags · 09-28-2010, 08:35 PM

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

FizzyWater · 09-28-2010, 08:36 PM

It was an email list, not a forum, but I figured it was close enough for a yes.

Falcao · 09-28-2010, 08:43 PM

No and No

kindlekitten · 09-28-2010, 10:31 PM

I'm an administrator AND a moderator on another forum. this goes back to about 97

astrangerhere · 09-29-2010, 06:22 AM

I am an administrator and moderator on another site. specifically a web radio site.

der-Matt · 09-29-2010, 11:33 AM

I was an administrator and moderator on another site, it was a quite successful, little Warhammer Online Fanpage.

ShortNCuddlyAm · 09-29-2010, 01:08 PM

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....

happy_terd · 09-29-2010, 01:14 PM

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.

Sweetpea · 09-29-2010, 01:18 PM

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...

dsvick · 09-29-2010, 01:43 PM

Was a moderator on a pretty popular java programming site, it has been some years though

Shayne Parkinson · 09-29-2010, 03:33 PM

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.

bjones6416 · 09-29-2010, 06:45 PM

I was an administrator for a couple of years on another site, but not now.

montsnmags · 09-30-2010, 01:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

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...

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Cheers,
Marc

View Poll Results: Have you been/ are you currently an administrator or moderator of a forum?
Yes, I've been/I am currently an admin in a forum	8	26.67%
Yes, I've been/ I am currently a moderator in a forum	11	36.67%
No, I've never been anything like that.	11	36.67%
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09-28-2010, 07:17 PM	#1
Logseman Orisa Posts: 1,999 Karma: 1035571 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Ireland Device: Onyx Poke 5	Are you an Admin or Mod in another forum? I'm positive that we all appreciate and thank the administrators and moderators of this site for keeping it clean and friendly, that task being harder by the fact that both the userbase and the managers are scattered all around the world, and the number of users is huge. 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? Last edited by Logseman; 09-29-2010 at 07:13 AM.

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