How many admin in a forum?

[mint1]

What is the best of managing a forum and how many forum admin require to run a forum? Can we take it as a business?

[gkd_uk]

Hi

It depends on the size of your forum and the number of members posting.

[RiverWire]

Im a firm believer that there should only ever be one Admin on any forum , i can never see the point of having loads of admins as most of the time they do nothing more than a mod would do .

But as GKD says it depends on how busy your forum is as to how many "staff" you have , Super mods and mods are fine , no need for anymore than one admin

[Blogington]

What is the best of managing a forum and how many forum admin require to run a forum? Can we take it as a business?

You only really need one admin to start with unless you expect your forum to grow so rapidly that it becomes impossible to manage alone. The next step would be to bring in mods, usually willing long time members of your forum who you trust. That said, if you have other demands on your time, bringing in a partner as an admin to help you run the forum and share the workload is a good idea.


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[webcreationuk]

When more than 2 admins are "in the house" it usually means problems. Best practice is to stick to two admins and how many moderators/supermods you need to run the forum.

[Cyber Master]

One admin and a few moderators but it would depends on how large is a forum.

[Mars Guitars]

One admin and a few moderators but it would depends on how large is a forum.

^^^ Exactly what I was going to say.

[wanjamie]

One admin and a few moderators but it would depends on how large is a forum.

Totally agreed, but also depends on how many sections or categories of the forum

[jacinthemilton]

One admin and if you want those people who will help you to maintain it get some moderators.

[Conran]

I think there must be a ratio to members, so if you have 100 members, maybe you need one admin and one mod. Then I'd wait until there were 300 members and invite a long-standing and active member to become a mod.

I suppose it depends on whether the forum actually needs that much control. I mean, you wouldn't exactly need a ratio of one mod to 100 members to keep a knitting forum in line, but you might need 20/100 to keep a political discussion forum under control!