How many forums do you own?

Discussion in 'Managing Your Online Community' started by Shortie861, Jun 8, 2011.

  1. Melvin

    Melvin Regular Member

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    I currently only own one.

    I'm focused on going through with it.
     
  2. cpvr

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    How big is your community? What made you start as a forum owner?
     
  3. Melvin

    Melvin Regular Member

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    I just started it, and I love providing a place that members can gather and interact with each other that has a common interest.
     
  4. Ashley

    Ashley Regular Member

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    I only have one forum, which celebrates it's tenth month anniversary on June 22. Due to health problems and a crazy real life schedule, I don't think I can take on more than one project at this time.
     
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  5. Kaiser

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    Well one is more than enough, and you are doing a good job with your forum.
     
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  6. Ashley

    Ashley Regular Member

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    Well, I tried running more than one forum, and I don't understand HOW some people can actually do it to be honest. Way too time consuming and way too much work. One is definitely more than I can handle all ready!
     
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  7. Solidus

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    Two.
    One of them a 'Big Board' by MyBB standards, and a smaller board.
     
  8. Kaiser

    Kaiser Regular Member

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    It wont be a problem say if both forums are small, but once they start to grow it can be hard to run two forums.
     
  9. Ashley

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    Actually, for me, even when both forums were small it was hard. Someone would do something wrong on forum A that would deem a friendly warning, but then I'd go to forum B thinking the member in question was registered on there as well, thinking that that's where the incident took place, only to look through the member list on Forum B so I could send a PM reminding the member of the rule infraction, only to realize that the incident and appropriate punishment should all happen on Forum A and nothing happened on Forum B. So trust me, even with a small memberbase it can be hard to keep track of. I don't know, maybe I was just that bad at multi-tasking back then, lol.
     
  10. Kaiser

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    Well I guess thats a problem that you might have, not for everyone else though. Everyone has a different experience whether running a small or big forums. I wouldnt have such a problem, and haven't either.
     
  11. Ashley

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    I guess another thing it could all boil down to is if you're used to multi tasking in real life as well, I suppose. Because I know in real life I cannot for the life of me concentrate on more than one task.
     
  12. cpvr

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    Great reason to start a forum. Have you gone through any set backs within your community or not really?
     
  13. cpvr

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    Bumping this.
     
  14. LunarScorpio

    LunarScorpio The Counselor

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    Currently I won two forums.
     
  15. Creaky

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    I own 2 at the moment.
     
  16. Brandon

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    I currently have 2 forums and help moderate a few others.
     
  17. cpvr

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    Which forums? Can you post them?
    What type of forums do you help moderate at?
     
  18. Creaky

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    The one in my sig and one other. It's a gaming site for a group of friends, you wont be able to see anything apart from a welcome message.

    http://www.gamesworld360.com
     
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    1 right know called brutal - has
     
  20. cpvr

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    How's it coming along?
     

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