Questions tagged [site-administration]
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Is there a better platform for online communities than Facebook Groups?
I'm currently in the planning/strategic stages to flourish a new online and offline community for Brazilian makers (DIY culture). I'm thinking about the platform to make the online interface.
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Rewarding high quality contributions?
The community I help run has a message board. Occasionally, a user provides content that is very high quality and deserves some kind of recognition. The problem I have is that this board doesn't have ...
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What metrics are helpful to describe the health of a community?
So I am managing a lot of sub communities and it became very hard to keep track of every single one. Moderator features are still in development and it happened already that I didn't notice bad ...
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Formally promoted staff members, technically the same as before - is this a good idea?
I've been part of a gaming community since its very beginning, and I've seen many decisions in these years. The most recent decision is quite confusing to me because it seems irrational to me.
Before ...
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What does a Community Manager do?
My community has moderators and administrators. Basically, the moderators run the day to day community and the administrators run the day to day business of the community. The administrators are ...
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Pitfalls to avoid when transferring community ownership?
I am taking over a small gaming community. It has about 200 active members, a web forum and two game servers. The current owner is transferring the domain name, the forum and both game servers to me. ...
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What are the benefits and disadvantages to implementing democracy in an online authoritative community? [closed]
I thought it might be good to ask a question such as this, since while I know the basic arguments, I'm curious as to how other people have found integrating a democratic atmosphere into their ...
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Community Leader is not productive and hurts site growth
I am one of 4 co-founders for a Minecraft community that is going live in January. In addition to the 4 of us, we have two administrators and a few moderators.
Founder A is the guy that provides the ...
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What is the difference between an admin, a community manager and a moderator?
I see words "admin", "community manager" and "moderator" on many different forums (like Reddit or Stack Overflow or Facebook). What is the difference between them?
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New owner has changed direction, how do old moderators adapt?
A while ago, the owner of our community stepped aside. A couple of the most senior community members offered to take up the reins. I believe this means everything from domain name to servers to forum ...
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Where is the line between Moderator and Administrator?
I am currently developing a site basically from scratch; the only third-party tools I'm using are web development libraries like jQuery and Kohana. This means I have full control over user permissions,...
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What should be done about posts that threaten suicide on our forums?
What should be done about posts that threaten suicide on our forums (assuming these are real threats and not an attempt to troll)?
Does anything need to be reported or done and would saying anything ...
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How to deal with an unreachable site owner?
Giving this question a shot since it's something I'm currently dealing with...
I've been an administrator of a forum/site community for a number of years and for the past couple years the actual ...
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