Name of site (and/or forum)?: The Strange Net
Link to forum?: T.S.N. Forum
Genre?: Paranormal, Conspiracy & Strange Discussions
Forum Software?: MyBB Software, Custom Theme
Total number of posts the forum has received?: Not Many, Recently Re-organized
Seeking?:

1. One Administrator, for managing staff and community, executive decisions and helping make the forum/site better.

2. Two Global Moderators, for giving members support when requested, enforcing our rules and keeping the community/site active

3. Several Board Leaders (Moderators), to lead specific boards they are interested in leading.

Paid Position?: No, this is a volunteer thing

Why are you requesting staff?: I am the only staff member and looking for more

Requirements:

A.) Ages 13 and up only, I comply with COPPA.
B.) I am asking for active volunteers
C.) No experience needed but perfered

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Shawn (WildBB Developer)

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Forum Administrator Discussions | The BB Network

Without trying to be critical of your site. Is the fact you only have 5 registered members a clear sign that you do not yet need any moderating/admin staff whatsoever. With only 66 posts with an average of at most 2 posts per day, it seems a bit redundant asking for several staff members until your site is very active.

With a REPORT TO MODERATOR function, you should be able to self moderate the site effectively by yourself until you reach around 100 active members and only then consider needing moderators to work alongside you to ease the workload.

Even a site with several hundred posts per day can easily be self moderated with a REPORT TO MODERATOR function and 2 mins of checking your reports every day.

My advice is to concentrate more on getting members, or possibly encouraging the ones you have got to post a LOT more in exchange for some VIP member perk.

It is great to have the staff in place ready for a mass rush of members and content. But without the posts or content or activity, staff members, particuarly volunteer ones that arent getting paid to sit around on a dead forum all day, will soon get bored and go elsewhere.

Just a suggestion, but i wish you well with your site, it looks good

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Staff members bring in more activity for a new site.

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Jerlene
DNLodge.com
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I guess it depends on an admins definition of "Staff" and "Active Members"... For me, what the website above is needing is Active Members, not Staff. They would be better off asking for assistance with a Post Exchange to build up content and activity to bring in new members rather than have a forum full of Staff and no members.

For me, I would question why the site owner is requiring an Administrator position to be filled when the role for a site with 5 members would be fulfilled easily by the site owner. For example, if he doesnt require a single staff member because of the lack of users, why does he need to offer a position of Administrator to someone to oversee the Staff? He first needs users.... to warrant the need for staff...... to then warrant the need for an administrator. Unless he is expecting a rush of 1000 new users signing up that he hasnt mentioned in the above posting, then I just see there being a fantastic well staffed forum with nobody posting without the word Moderator in their profile.
Why also would the site owner wish to allow the entire running and desicions about his site he has built up himself be handed over to someone else.

I personally would try and attract some online friends or fellow posters such as on AdminFusion to come on their site and give it a kick start by signing up, posting a few posts to make it look a little more popular. This can be done via the Post Exchange. And then I would announce it to the world via the various ways of advertising available to bring in new members. And then when you begin to get a small userbase of members posting actively, look towards these people, select 1 or 2 that are obviously keen on the forums and post regularly and ask them to fill a Moderator slot, or Board Leader slot. THESE are the people that are likely to be Active Staff, rather than just applying for anyone, with zero knowledge of the people your selecting to be your site staff, who havent proven themselves to be active posters or shown an understanding of their way around your forum.

Obviously the more active the forum becomes, the more you will require more staff, and the more of a pool of active posters you will have to select from that pool of users. A pool of users with a keen interest in the forum subject rather than someone asked to run a site where they are likely to be the only posters. And then as your members grow in numbers, and so does your need for more moderators, the site owners task of running the site and keeping his staff in line can fall to another administrator who he can make from his most valued moderator he can trust with the keys to his site.

Also I would wonder if the site owner is going to make any attempts to push the site via promotions or advertising, because if they are happy to hand over the reigns so quickly and freely to a volunteer administrator to run the site, would that administrator also have to attract the traffic to the site by themselves? In effect, they are operating and running and hardest of all, promoting a brand new website for free when they could be doing it on their own website earning some small revenue from various means.

Maybe it is just from the little amount of information given in the first posting that i am basing my opinion on, but it almost appears that site owner wants to get huge rewards of a very active and popular forum without putting in any groundwork themselves. And as I have seen dozens of times before, one of the best ways to MAKE a forum is when the owner rolls up his sleeves and leads by example, rather than lob the keys to the office to a stranger and say "go for it".

I wish them luck, and I am sure they have a lot of great reasons for needing a dozen staff to run a forum of 5 registered members. I just think that you have to start small to think big.

Please dont let my opinion stand in the way of applying to the above positions, it isnt meant to do that. But merely offer some alternatives to fulfill the needs of the above forum without resorting to throwing out senior staff positions to strangers.

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