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The arrogant ones are young, they don't want help and don't think they need help and this is why most of there forums fail.

(01-28-2011, 01:15 PM)ZoomTM Wrote: [ -> ]The arrogant ones are young, they don't want help and don't think they need help and this is why most of there forums fail.

Sometimes suggestions arent for the best though, which is why it's like playing a game. I've ran lots of successful software and computer support service forums. And i've also helped others get successful forums, but unfortunately the people that i've helped, (some of the younger admins) didn't have money for good hosting, and bad hosting causes slower page load, and downtime, most of the time.

That's a big part of most of these unsuccessful forums.

To be a good admin, especially if you're in development, you have to pretend that you'll consider all of the suggestions for the future, even though you know you won't be implementing any of the ideas to the website. That way, your forum still goes well, you still get incoming suggestions, none of the bad suggestions are put into your site, and all the members are happy. You just make yourself look busy, whether you are or not.

You can become more careless when your forum is big, because you still have the support of a majority of members, while it's still not recommended to disregard a select few members from your forum, especially the active contributors.

Lots of people act like they know what to do on a forum, when they really have a lot more to learn

Believe me, except from Flamingw0rm (ma buddy) =]
But his forum www.*****.org is currently down

An ignorant webmaster is a bad webmaster.You can't run a community with a bad webmaster.

webmaster = administrator, right?

(02-17-2011, 12:58 PM)wassiliboss Wrote: [ -> ]webmaster = administrator, right?

Yes.

Xander, if you can keep this discussion civil, I will allow it under the topic of Community Management.

(02-17-2011, 12:57 PM)PaperBag Wrote: [ -> ]An ignorant webmaster is a bad webmaster.You can't run a community with a bad webmaster.

lol yes you can, if you have a big community chances are that you'll still have the majority of people for you, meaning that you can be less caring. in the beginning its all about gaining members so you're forced to be nice to all of your members but you can still run a good site

(02-17-2011, 12:58 PM)wassiliboss Wrote: [ -> ]webmaster = administrator, right?

wrong, even the first poster got it wrong. Eve is technically incorrect as well. the webmaster isnt always the admin, they could be the site programmer behind the scenes. the admin is just a position on the site

(02-18-2011, 06:45 PM)Infinity Wrote: [ -> ]

(02-17-2011, 12:58 PM)wassiliboss Wrote: [ -> ]webmaster = administrator, right?

wrong, even the first poster got it wrong. Eve is technically incorrect as well. the webmaster isnt always the admin, they could be the site programmer behind the scenes. the admin is just a position on the site

Thanks for pointing out the difference.

Becoz they spend good amount of time on developing and working on sites and interest, thats make them bit rough.

(02-19-2011, 03:23 AM)!!*-Br3tHawk™*-!! Wrote: [ -> ]Becoz they spend good amount of time on developing and working on sites and interest, thats make them bit rough.

I was having a hard time putting it into words but thats the more accurate version of what a webmaster is. basically the sites root/source developper.