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Staff at TheAdminZone.com forums

Filed under: Life and Leisure by Hari
Posted on Wed, Jun 7, 2006 at 20:12 IST (last updated: Wed, Jul 16, 2008 @ 20:15 IST)

I've just been appointed as a senior staff member at TheAdminZone forums. :)

Being appointed a moderator of a community of forum administrators is a special feeling. Hope I can do a good job of it now.

13 comment(s)

  1. Congrats Hari - which bits of it do you moderate?

    Comment by ray (visitor) on Thu, Jun 8, 2006 @ 00:02 IST #
  2. It's a super moderator position, same as you are in LiteraryForums. I can do all sections - but I could select any area which I wanted to concentrate on so I chose "Managing your community" and "Community review". ;)

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Thu, Jun 8, 2006 @ 07:27 IST #
  3. I signed up... I will just lurk at the moment though I think. I said referer was you though, hari. :D hope that gets you points or something. Not ANOTHER forum! :D

    Comment by titanium_geek (visitor) on Thu, Jun 8, 2006 @ 12:00 IST #
  4. Thanks Titanium_geek! Hope you find it useful when you launch your community :)

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Thu, Jun 8, 2006 @ 12:11 IST #
  5. Congrats Hari :DI'm currently a member of too many forums and I've got too little time :eek: But, I'll make sure I take a good look at it once my holidays begin :)

    Comment by J_K9 (visitor) on Thu, Jun 8, 2006 @ 18:20 IST #
  6. Thanks J_K9. First time I'm a moderator on such a big forum... I'm learning a lot of what goes on behind the scenes as well. :)Being a moderator isn't easy by any means. It's harder than being an admin at any rate! :P

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Thu, Jun 8, 2006 @ 20:37 IST #
  7. You're telling me! I'm a moderator on an up-and-coming forum, and it's not at all easy! Makes me feel sorry for Ray and Drew at times ;)To be fair, the admins' jobs aren't that simple.. We have one admin who is almost constantly coding new features for the forum :DBest of luck, Hari.. Hope it all goes well ;)

    Comment by J_K9 (visitor) on Fri, Jun 9, 2006 @ 02:19 IST #
  8. Thanks. I wonder how many complaints Ray and Drew get from irate members. :P

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Fri, Jun 9, 2006 @ 08:08 IST #
  9. Not as many complaints as you may think. in fact, I haven't had any hate mail for ages and no threads titled "XavierP is a Nazi" for almost a year. Maybe I'm being too nice.....

    Comment by ray (visitor) on Fri, Jun 9, 2006 @ 14:13 IST #
  10. Yeah, although LinuxQuestions.org is an exceptional case. It's a community of a kind I've not encountered anywhere else. For such a large community (200,000+ members) the atmosphere is particularly restrained and mature (except on the odd occasion when another Linux Windows flame war blows up). And of course Ray deserves the moderator of the year award from all of us :P (eh... what? No not kidding, really...) ;)And no, I've not got complaints so far either... And Ray, one advantage you have is that PMs are disabled at LQ. :lol:

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Fri, Jun 9, 2006 @ 15:47 IST #
  11. Yeah, having PMs disabled is a help, but email isn't. Personally, I really enjoy getting hate mail - it shows I'm doing my job and having fun :)

    Comment by ray (visitor) on Sat, Jun 10, 2006 @ 03:39 IST #


  12. Comment by J_K9 (visitor) on Sat, Jun 10, 2006 @ 12:59 IST #
  13. I counted 20+ smilies already in this little thread :lol: :P

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Sat, Jun 10, 2006 @ 13:30 IST #

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