It's The Members Job Not Mine!

[McConnaughay]

A couple of years ago whenever I was looking for affiliations to help the growth of my forum, there was an administrator of a forum that I met who'd off and on close down the forum saying that the members are doing their fair share or trying to keep the website active. Have you ever found an administrator that felt that it was a members obligation to keep the website active and not himself? Personally, my opinion is that if you're efforts in formulating a community have been unsuccessful than you have nobody to blame but yourself. I know that it can be hard to garner popularity with forums but lashing out on members is immature and will do much more harm than it will do good.

 

[Chatsie]

I know of a forum where the Admin hardly ever starts

any new topics, but expects the members to do do so.

According to this person, a forum is the membership,

not the Admin.

 

[Shini]

It is a mix between everyone personally.

 

[Jazzy]

It's not up to the members to keep a forum active. It's up to the staff of that forum to make sure it stays fresh and updated daily with new topics. Forums are a dime a dozen. Once a forum becomes stale members will move on to another forum. Competition is wicked and in order to keep members, staff needs be creating new topics daily. They need to also come up with fun things for members to participate in. It's wonderful if members want to start new topics or suggest new things to do, but it's not their job to do so. A community is formed when members want to keep coming back to interact with other members.

 

[Sinon]

I know someone who's owned god knows how many forums. He always gets bored, lets them die, then closes them. Then a few weeks later, opens a new one and expects it to do well.

 

[James]

I may have trouble thinking up topics for my own forum, but I never think of this.(Of course, I should probably keep up-to-date on gaming news, maybe that's my problem)



It's up to the staff and the administrator(s) to keep the forum active.

 

[beowulf]

in my experience its the members who keep a forum active by posting new topics................but then im used to forums that generate large number of new threads every day.....no need for admin to do it

 

[Hulk's iconHulk]

I always feel it is my job to keep my site alive. It is not a members job to keep the place running.

 

[DrLeftover]

I think it is up to the Staff to know when to kick it, and when take a step back and let it go.

 

[Chatsie]

Even if an Admin does post new topics daily, if members

don't visit the forum and reply to them the forum goes down.



I would say that keeping a forum alive is a shared responsibility.

 

[DrLeftover]

It is somebody's responsibility???



The Devil you say.



I thought the Government was going to take over everybody's responsibility for what they say and do.



damn

 

[Bryd0]

While I let my members create new threads, I sometimes do that when I have anything in mind to share. It is recommended for the Admins and staff to create new threads to keep the forum activity going.

 

[The Dragon Master]

I think it's the staff job to kick the thread making off, but it's nice when member's chip in.

 

[McConnaughay]

It is somebody's responsibility???



The Devil you say.



I thought the Government was going to take over everybody's responsibility for what they say and do.



damn

Whatever you're smoking, can't be legal.

 

[Loucifer]

It's the admin/staff's job to keep a forum running.... although, without input and activity from members, a forum is pointless.

 

[Sariki]

It's a mixture of both. I believe that it's the admin and staff's job to keep new and fresh ideas and the members too make the community.

 

[netsavy006]

In order for a forum to have success, you need to have both the effort of the staff to continually start topics and participate in existing topics as well as the members to help keep it going.



A forum isn't a forum w/o the staff or its members.