How Many Team Members?

How many team members (moderators, administrators, etc.) do you have? At what point do you find it necessary to add more moderators?

 

2 Admins.
1 Super Mod... Looking for another
6 Mods... 3-4 active?

 

We have a section to solicit such wants, here.

 

At the moment (on my most active forum), I have six team members - two of whom are co-administrators.

 

Just two: myself and a security guard (super moderator). All we really need, to be honest.

 

1 or 2 admins, and about 3-5 moderators is sufficient for most forums out there.

 

1 other administrator... No moderators.

Here's my ratio; 1:4,000 posts - one moderator per four thousand posts.

 

I see what you did there

 

Sneaky, eh? :unhunh:

 

It really depends of the size of the forum but when i start a new forum then there is me and maybe 1 smod and when it gets bigger i add more moderators depending of how much i need them.

 

It really does depend on the size and activity of a forum. I've seen some discussion communities start out with five administrators and three super moderators. Is there really any need for that? Eh...

 

I do not think there is a need for that unless you start of very big and gets many users the first day or two, and that is not very likely that it will happend.

 

Exactly. Unless a newly created community suddenly receives an influx of major activity, there is no need for a staff team that large (in the beginning).

 

I agree. An over-staffed team can probably kill a forum rather quickly.

 

Not to mention the "intimidation" factor - a new member decides to join a newly created forum (with no threads or posts) and then realizes that there are eight staff members online.

 

Hence the quick death.

 

Can you imagine? This one member decides to join a forum and receives eight welcome PM's.

 

:lol: I'd get the vibe of desperation and leave anyways.

And then I accidentally post in the wrong forum and get eight warning PMs or something. :p

 

Hehe that misstake was one i made when i was like eleven or something and created my first forum, it was an fansite for the game Tibia that i used to play and i had like more then half of the members at the beginning as smods. It was like 10 members :p But i learned of my misstake and i was just a kid back then

 

Ugh, it'd be frightening - particularly for someone who may be knew to the "forum world".