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[Nebulous]

If you have a bad rep amongst a small group you can just advertise in other parts of the web. If you are running a great forum, people join it because its something that appears to be worth joining. Not because the owner is disliked by a few people. Ive joined forums where I really disliked the admin but I did like some other members there so I joined up to chat with them. A forum is not just about the person running it.. The owner is Not the sun and the members are Not the planets. A forum is a whole commuinty of individuals.

True, but the owner usually bears the burden of advertising etc. So in respect, if the forum owner alienates everyone he talks to, the forum is shot in the foot from the start.

You are ignoring the part I said about "advertise in other parts of the web"
The internet is a big place. There is millions of websites/forums/places to advertise that you and me have never even seen yet. The people who come to this forum and other forums in this little pocket of the web are just a fraction of what else is out there.

 

[DarkRaven]

But is that a reason to shoddily administrate your forum and annoy people though? I'd hate to have to up sticks and leave to some other part of the web and completely recreate my identity. It would be so much easier just to doing everything in a reasonable fashion the first time around because if you want to get anywhere, you have to do it eventually...

 

[Nebulous]

Nobody is talking about how people administrate their forum. A bad reputation could be formed by any number of reasons. Example: One person who doesn't like you could make some stuff up and spread it around. Before you know it all your internet "friends" no longer wish to talk to you or be involved in your forums. You never know.. Reputation is meaningless though. People who are unknown and have no reputation built up can create a forum that will one day reach millions of members and posts. People who have the best reputation could create a forum that will fail. Its all random.

 

[David]

True, but the owner usually bears the burden of advertising etc. So in respect, if the forum owner alienates everyone he talks to, the forum is shot in the foot from the start.

How so? The Internet is so big that having a bad reputation on 100 forums won't affect you the slightest bit.

Also, reputation is not a matter of liking and disliking, or pretending to be someone you aren't. It's reputation as being a successful administrator/webmaster and that is measured by how your projects fail/succeed. Theezy, you don't have to really worry about it so much because of how Forum Advertiser, and lately, Wober are doing. FA thrived and closed in it's prime, Wober is on 100k posts only a year in?

This is reputation in one community, FP. Theezy may be the most annoying member on another and be be banned on thousands other. You are saying that in relation to FP, not the Internet.

Well to an extent you've built it without thinking. You've proven yourself to be a committed administrator who's pulled his forum from a horrible free host to being the largest promotion forum on the web. Like it or not, you've got a reputation. I'm sure if you decided one day to leave FP, you'd have several people clambering to hire you on their forums.

Again, Fowler is merely a forum account on the Internet. To you he has a great reuptation, to the hundreds he has banned, a not so good reputation. Even if Fowler leaves, there are millions of people who don't even know what the heck ForumPromotion is, let alone the fact that FP is a small forum. There probably won't be many asking him.

I define reputation as a webmaster as not being associated with projects that **** up, or if the project ****s up, it can't necessarily be pinned on you in a bad way. Theezy was forced to close FA because of lack of personal funding. That wouldn't have harmed his rep as an admin in any way.

It can in a way to professionals. A lack of personal funding could show a lack of organization, or a lack of job security. There are so many factors, and so reputation is not important at all on the Internet.

 

[Nebulous]

😡 Hey now.

I didn't give either of you permission to use me as an example in the points you are trying to make.
😀 😛

 

[David]

😡 Hey now.

I didn't give either of you permission to use me as an example in the points you are trying to make.
😀 😛

You were a good example :lol: