Burning Bridges

[Azareal]

Sometimes, staff seem to burn bridges with their community over seemingly very petty things, whether it's just a sheer stubborn streak, the perceived need to make a dollar or two to help "break even", etc. and it just alienates the user-base.

I've seen that on one site where the admin made the decision to setup IPB on a site with about... Ten users in a fairly saturated niche with a fairly generic theme and structure, and then, they went crazy trying to recoup their investment and practically forced everyone to leave.

How often have you seen really stubborn staff members?

 

[Katrina]

Sometimes, staff seem to burn bridges with their community over seemingly very petty things, whether it's just a sheer stubborn streak, the perceived need to make a dollar or two to help "break even", etc. and it just alienates the user-base.

I've seen that on one site where the admin made the decision to setup IPB on a site with about... Ten users in a fairly saturated niche with a fairly generic theme and structure, and then, they went crazy trying to recoup their investment and practically forced everyone to leave.

How often have you seen really stubborn staff members?

Raising my hand. I'm a stubborn staff member.

I don't own my site but I run it and I have had more experience than the lot of my members. So I often know what is good for the site as a whole. They aren't keen on change at all and will fight me to do the death on most things I bring up that I want to do. The only thing I'm not stubborn about is that I let them have the last word. Or they won't stop. I might not agree with their opinion but I don't have to have the last word ...except to do it my way.

 

[Jason76]

On SWC, a forum I co-own, a big problem arises when admins come in - cannot get along with the "bad boy" atmosphere or something else - so they (the admins) get kicked out totally (account banned). Note, on at least one forum theme this caused the posts to get all jumbled and messy (or the posts of people they (the admins) banned - before they got banned).

OK, well things get pretty heated - but the problem is that you can't have real rules on a "bad boy forum". At least not when the bad boys are the main members. When they're gone, the forum is nothing.