eRep
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CyberFreak
Legendary Typer
I am not that bothered really. I just be myself and I am not going to act and be someone i am not. What you see is what you get with me. If people don't like me then so be it. It is life. There is no one in this world that everyone likes.
I think I do because you get rep for doing something good, helping somebody out and I try to pride myself on doing that if I can for others. Seeing just my three points rep now makes me feel like I need to do more but where or what number does it stop. Where would you feel comfortable at where you felt that you had done some good in some way? 😉
cityStatic
Seasoned Veteran
^This.Sbfc said:
In some way's I do very much care about my eRep because if you can build enough good Rep the chances of getting involved with bigger and better things is more likely.
However I do not act any different on forums or the online world then I would act in person.
However I do not act any different on forums or the online world then I would act in person.
Fowler said:
I'm with Fowler on this. In the past, I used to get pretty upset about what people said about me, but now I'm trying to not care about it as much. I mean, heck, it's the Internet. The chances of you meeting some of these people in real life are less than zero, so really, you shouldn't really be bothered by what people say about you... because you have a lot of other things to worry about/take care of. That's my opinion, anyway.
SettledHate.
Paragon
I do worry about E-Rep. I hate the thought of becoming 'un cool' to people. But at the same time, as a forum owner, you got to do what is needed, if it be considered un cool (though actually quite fair and law-laying), then so be it.
PurpleCrow
Up-and-Coming Sensation
I do, I'm trying to build up my reputation in the Pagan online community at the moment.
Seem to be doing well as one online store has given all my forum members a discount code and a well known author has agreed to do an interview 🙂
Seem to be doing well as one online store has given all my forum members a discount code and a well known author has agreed to do an interview 🙂
I don't care about mine. Life is to short to stress about what others think of you (especially on the internet). Because they will think whatever they want to think even if it isn't true. I just be myself and if people like me then they do, if they dont then they dont.
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Well, in some degree I do. I don't want to be associated with projects that fail, because that just hinders future projects. Be Creative failed due to a technical error, but because it was at it's prime when it failed, and receiving over 200 posts per day - I got several people wanting to monetarily back me for my latest project, Hortorian. So in that respect, yes, having a good reputation matters.
On the other hand, I've seen forums that people don't even want to join because the owner's forums usually fail. One guy, did everything right: he pre advertised on facebook, twitter, through his signature, IM buddies, he started interesting topics on the forum before it opened, and when it did actually open, he advertised like mad... One month in, he had ten members. That forum is as inactive as the sahara desert is short of water. Whey? People saw what happened before and went: ''oh Patrick is opening a forum? Remember his last one, hahahahaha.''
Reputation matters guys. If you want your forums to get anywhere, you need to build at least a moderate one.
On the other hand, I've seen forums that people don't even want to join because the owner's forums usually fail. One guy, did everything right: he pre advertised on facebook, twitter, through his signature, IM buddies, he started interesting topics on the forum before it opened, and when it did actually open, he advertised like mad... One month in, he had ten members. That forum is as inactive as the sahara desert is short of water. Whey? People saw what happened before and went: ''oh Patrick is opening a forum? Remember his last one, hahahahaha.''
Reputation matters guys. If you want your forums to get anywhere, you need to build at least a moderate one.
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.
CyberFreak
Legendary Typer
I don't really care about eRep. I wouldn't go out of my way to try and build it up. I just am myself and people think of me based on who i am not who i am pretending to be.
theezy said:
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.
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?
Fowler said:
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.
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.
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