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Ever step down from staff?

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On any forum or website that you've been a moderator or administrator at; have you ever stepped down from staff?
 
Heck, there was a small period in time when I was close to giving up on Discussion Hub. I don't know about moderators but having been an administrator and owner of a few forums, I think we all go through a period where we fall out of love with our sites. It's important to slowly step back just for a few days to see whether it's something that might be permanent or just you being temporarily bored
 
Heck, there was a small period in time when I was close to giving up on Discussion Hub. I don't know about moderators but having been an administrator and owner of a few forums, I think we all go through a period where we fall out of love with our sites. It's important to slowly step back just for a few days to see whether it's something that might be permanent or just you being temporarily bored
This would have been very sad, i feel like this is a place where i can always come back :(
 
It was a very long time ago near the start so you guys don't have to worry about it from now on. But yeah, sometimes the start of a forum can be difficult especially when you don't have many active and awesome users as we have right now :)
 
Not that i can recall! I've been an admin on my own forum since 2002 so I guess that's a pretty good time period!
 
@Ash I'm very glad you decided to keep DH!

I have stepped down in the past. I used to be a staff member on several forums when I had more free time. Nowadays I am more careful not to bite off more than I can chew.
 
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I've been involved with forums since 1996, so I've been on staff on many, many forums and yes, stepped away many, many times. Sometimes you just have to :)
 
I've stepped down when real life has gotten too busy. Then I was asked back a year or two later and returned because I had more time.

On some forums it's easy to get burnt out if there are a lot of reports to work and that's all that upper staff cares about.
 
Heck, there was a small period in time when I was close to giving up on Discussion Hub. I don't know about moderators but having been an administrator and owner of a few forums, I think we all go through a period where we fall out of love with our sites. It's important to slowly step back just for a few days to see whether it's something that might be permanent or just you being temporarily bored

I feel that, if I had led a busier life, I think I would have given up on my site, yay for a boring neet life? lol...
 
Yes, it's happened far more than I would have liked - but personal issues always take priority, and if I'm running a community of my own that comes next. Unfortunately I also have a habit of giving up on being a webmaster.
 
Yes, it's happened far more than I would have liked - but personal issues always take priority, and if I'm running a community of my own that comes next. Unfortunately I also have a habit of giving up on being a webmaster.
Sometimes this comes with some kind of lack of motivation because of results, i think this forum has been doing quite good considering current times where you have much popular options, quality over quantity sometimes :D
 
@Ash I'm very glad you decided to keep DH!

I have stepped down in the past. I used to be a staff member on several forums when I had more free time. Nowadays I am more careful not to bite off more than I can chew.
What can I say, I'm a changed man now :p. But, yeah, with previous projects, I've sometimes given up too early and regretted it afterwards so I've definitely learnt my lesson. I'm glad I did stick with it though because I'm loving DH at the moment and it's been my best online project so far.
Yes, it's happened far more than I would have liked - but personal issues always take priority, and if I'm running a community of my own that comes next. Unfortunately I also have a habit of giving up on being a webmaster.
Definitely took me a while to overcome that habit. When I first got into the world of webmasters, I was definitely starting and ending projects way too quickly.
 
I have and will if the community is falling from the direction I though it was in when I joined the team.

Nowadays, I limit where I staff. I'm staff on one forum outside of my own. I think I am open to becoming staff on one more forum but I'd like it to be small. I just don't know which one yet.

I am an active contributor to forums but if I realize I am the only staff member who is the only active member as well, I lose interest.

I've been running forums for 25-years now. If a staff member isn't an active member, too, then you have a failed team.
 
Yes, many years ago :) I step away in early 2014 or late 2013. The site was called "Major-Gaming" and the long story I had enough that I had to leave the site as I was sick and tired of the person that was running it. He was a dosh-bag. Soon after I left the site was closed down anyway.
 
Recently, I stepped down from the moderator position on a certain forum. When I decided to work on the forum, we had agreed on some kind of cash payment, but when the admin said he can no longer pay, I left the position.
No money coming in then means you can't pay.
 
I like Discussion Hub & you've built a great place here @Ash :)
As for stepping down, I have several times. Real life gets in there & you get burnt-out. Or you may not click with the owner or rest of Staff. I've been on Staff before as a mod & the owner was nowhere around & there was spam everywhere. Us mods couldn't keep up as we didn't have the permissions to PREVENT it. I had to leave.
 
There have been various different reasons I've stepped down from staff. Normally, when I step down, it's due to not being able to have enough time to continue to commit to that position anymore.
 
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