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Mod to member ratio?
02-14-2007, 02:59 AM
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| Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 274  | Mod to member ratio? I'm curious to know how many mods you guys have in relation to the amount of members. I have two mods right now and I'm thinking of adding another but I'm not sure if I should wait untill we have more members or not. Techincally we can handle things without a problem as is, but it would be nice to have another mod to help out with basics things. Anyway, does anyone care to say how many members and how many mods they have? And do you feel you have enough, too much or not enough?  | ||||
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02-14-2007, 03:31 AM
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Title: Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 740 Location: New Zealand | I do mine a little differently then so many mods per members. I have a few specialised areas, so have mods that are experts in that area.
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02-14-2007, 04:30 AM
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Title: Forum Addict
Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,913 Location: Australia 
| with my new forum coming up, i will need an extra 1 or 2 to look after the forums, as i will be doing more work gathering content, advertising, promoting, all the behind the scenese sort of stuff and general matters.  So i think it depeds on how much time your going to put in for the forums. If its not much, hire more if your a regular poster and watch every post you may only need 1 to cover you while you sleep. | ||||
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02-14-2007, 05:45 AM
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Title: Forum Addict
Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,338 Location: Illinois
| I don't have a set ratio. My only ratio is supply and demand. | ||||
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02-15-2007, 02:33 PM
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Title: Administrator
Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA   | It's not always about x number of mods per x number of members...What is important is how much those mods can get done. 2 extremely active and productive mods can get just as much done as 10 inactive, less-productive mods. You basically need to decide whether or not your current staff can handle issues as they arive in a timely manner...If they cannot, then find more staff. If you've only got 1 moderator for a huge forum, don't worry about it unless there is too much work to be done and too little manpower to handle it.
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02-15-2007, 03:10 PM
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Title: Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 652 | Good question actually, but Ryan has the perfect answer. If you have spam attacks, get more mods, if you think their work is overwhelming, get more mods. Otherwise, you have a good number. | ||||
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02-15-2007, 07:18 PM
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Title: Administrator
Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA | Right, that's something that I actually left out of my post...A forum with mature members is probably going to require less moderation than a forum with immature members or one that's being hit daily with spam.
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02-19-2007, 04:36 PM
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| Title: Lurker
Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 10 | it also depends on what job your mods do at the end of the day. A new forum requires some mods not so much for moderation but for actual posting. I usually prefer to appoint certain people as mods(named them section leads) that lead their section posting content, and when need be moderate. On newer forums, i really don't think you should look at ratio's. Getting content is the priority. Bigger forums, as many mods as can keep the trouble makers at bay. | ||||
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