Questions tagged [site-administration]
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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 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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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 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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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