What is your strongpoint in the forum world?

This may have fit better in Miscellaneous Discussion, but this does have to do with forums in general - move accordingly.

As the title says, what is your strong point while moderating or administrating a forum.

This means what do you do best; handle problematic users, back-end?

Me, well, I specialize in everything. However, I find that I do best while handling problematic users.

 

Social media marketing is my strong point

 

So you are an expert in promoting your community through sites such as Twitter and Facebook?

 

Front end and backend I guess, tho I think my strongest point is drawing people out once they've joined and getting them to let loose and have some fun.

 

That's always good...

I try not to be too pushy. But being that I am a salesman, I get a little pushy and rather than getting people to stay active, I turn them away. :rofl:

 

Backend stuff...creating detailed how to and documenting features for the forum members.

 

Well, I like a lot of the ideas I come up with. However, my weakness is the exact counterpart of my strong point, so to speak. I can never implement the majority of the visions I get because of my lack of coding/graphic skills. Overall, I'd say front-end stuff is my strong point.

 

I think my strong point is coming up with ideas. My weak point is finding time/money/skills to complete every one

 

Has to be my graphic designing skills... My out-of-the-box ideas.

 

Yes, exactly! :lol:

 

T~T Money, the taboo.

 

Now I'd definitely say this is a great strongpoint. I usually find premade templates and edit them to my liking.

I think most people specialize in front-end stuff.

I'm with you on that one - I always have these awesome ideas but I can never put the money into it.

I may have to hire ya!

 

??? NO, those sites are junk for promotion. I deal in youtube, break, dailymotion, metacafe,,,,

I can post a video on youtube and it gets 10,000 views. Post the same video on myspace and it gets 10 views.

 

Keep a list or journal of those ideas, Tom. You never know when it will come in handy.

 

Back-end stuff - Server, and of couse vbulletin itself.

 

Metacafe seems like a great solution.

I used Metacafe when I first began the Official Blog of DT.

 

Some people say I have a knack for eloquently handling sensitive situations. Sometimes a crowd gets riled up about an idea - or someone's f aux pas - and I go in and defuse it.

I'm proud of my server security and optimization skills. I have a DOS-proof IPTables script and a limited ability to handle a DDOS should one occur, and root on my machines is fairly seriously protected. During peak days it - a dinky little Core2 Duo machine - fields over two million php calls and twenty-five million queries.

I'm a fairly good programmer, getting fed up with most forum software, as a rule, to be frank.

 

Weaknesses: Creativity (ideas), coding skills and design skills.

Strengths: Member- and inter-community relations; back-end administration; and taking action. I'm always doing something. I can't stand dormancy in terms of forum management. Ask Chris or Tyler, they'll tell 'ya - I'm usually always pressing for something to be getting done (I can't do it all - hence a three-man team).

 

Strengths:

• Developing strong bonds with the community and/or memberbase (i.e. building relationships)
• Content organization and management
• Financially supporting and/or funding communities
• Remaining active

Weaknesses:

• Coding
• Design and/or modification of the visual appearance

We're quite the team, too.

 

Strengths: Getting stuff done in the backend, organization of forums and features. I absolutely love playing with admin panels (my favorite part of forums) and trying out new features.

Weaknesses: Knowing when I'm in over my head. I'll start moving too fast for myself, especially when I've got a few websites lined up.