Questions tagged [site-administration]
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How does someone get a job as a community manager or social media person? How do you even define your skills?
I have been volunteering my time as a Facebook admin for both page and groups (I am a FB power admin), YouTube moderator (particularly for live streams), and for a largeish subreddit (>500k) as a ...
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How and where to find a good community manager? [closed]
What are the criteria for being a good community manager?
What expectations can you have from a good community manager?
Where is the best place to look for someone to manage a starting
community?
Do ...
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Why is moderation important?
After trying to draw some attention to a community about the lag time in review queues being handled, I was met with this response from one of the users:
"I'm still confused why should I care ...
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What are the advantages/disadvantages to requiring users to be logged in to post ads?
I develop an online classified advertising web/mobile service. Right now users don't have to be logged in to place an ad. It is enough to use a valid email address. Having an account has other ...
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Where can I find guidance in setting up free wifi Internet access for our municipality?
I would like to submit a proposal to my municipality for them to offer free wifi Internet to the township residents. They do not have an exclusivity agreement for Internet service with the current ISP,...
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Examples of majority rule/mob rule communities that have succeed long term and don't degrade to lowest common denominator?
A recent episode of The Orville - Majority Rule - had an interesting premise: the entire society's laws were voted on by everyone all the time. The majority vote wins and that is how laws are created ...
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How do you get a job as a Community worker? Can volunteering hurt your chances?
I volunteer as a moderator for a pretty popular online game. The game’s still relatively young - it’s five years old now; I’ve been a player since it opened and a moderator for over three years.
I’m ...
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An indifferent server manager who is a close friend of the owner
I am an administrator on a small, new Minecraft server. Our administration team has a "Manager". However, it seems that he is unwilling to do any jobs. From plugin configuration or even simply ...
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Do I have other options to getting a domain name?
We currently have a domain name that is long and contains a hyphen. It isn't very easy to hand out to users because it doesn't just roll off the tongue.
There is another domain that we'd like to ...
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My co-workers don't understand what moderation means
I moderate a roleplay forum unpaid. I do this because I love to moderate. Moderators on this site get in role play authority to enforce users. (ex. being a group leader.)
I have slowly realized that ...
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What questions can help me to select the right person to help me with my community?
I am currently searching for help for my site. Especially on the technical side I need support and have some applications already. The problem is that I want someone who also has a feeling and good ...
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How can a community raise funds to help offset costs, even if site is non commercial?
I run a very small community with a nascent population (online; not associated with a geographical area). Even though my intention is to not necessarily create a profitable business out of this ...
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How to deal with extremely rude Facebook troll?
I had a friend - well, call him one. Our relationship went worse and eventually, I had to block him.
He's still active on one of the social media pages of my community, though, and exploits it. He's ...
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How can an online community measure its growth and development?
Is there a more effective way to measure how a community is growing and developing than just with simple metrics like:
Total membership
Number of new members per week or month
Number and percentage ...
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What are best practices for creating engaging experience in a forum-based community?
So, I'm building a science and tech forum website and I need recommendations on
how to make the experience for the members more engaging so that more of the membership will return, and become more ...
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