Have you started a new forum with no staff?

Just wondering how you all got started staff wise. Did you start on your own as one Admin or have staff lined up before opening the forum?

 

All of my forums were started and maintained by one person - me. Until new members signed up and started posting, then I got some volunteer moderators.

I have found that few friends or family members will help with a forum, so its all up to you.

 

Pretty much all of them were just me until some real activity got going, although I did start one as a spin-off of another forum and brought in a forum member to mod.

 

Thanks for the feedback.

 

The staff was already there

 

This...

 

All of them me and my girlfriend were the starting staff other than on mumslife.com as it isnt really my thing.

 

I have always had staff there to help along the way.

 

I started my forum alone but brought on some staff members after a few weeks in order to help me with the growth, promotion and direction of the site. I added more (and still do) as time goes on and the community grows.

 

I started my toyota site by myself. Did everything by myself.. finally had sum people join and start postin that were worthy of mod status.

 

I've started all on my own. Then, I start to add staff as we grow and need it.

 

I need some staff

 

Before ETF, I always did this.

But this time I started with just myself but quickly hired 2 other administrators to help with things.

 

Thanks for your comments, most helpful.

 

I am currently working on a new project by myself with no staff but that could all change in the coming days/weeks!

 

I started alone, but when the need for help to moderate arose I had identified people I felt were trustworthy.

But starting with a staff already in place could make things TONS easier.

 

It does! It makes such a difference.

 

all of the forums i am admin on started with two admin in a partnership.

the first one im starting is just me, til it gets more active.

 

yes , lol when i started jamii , i had no staff , no one , and now it has over 800K Posts
but when i started another , i got help with the people from jamii

currently going to open the third forum with No Staff!! Hope it will succeed too

 

I tired starting a forum with staff before but i couldn't rely on them to be active and post, so now i just hire people when i see that their active and we need them/