Okay, so far my forum owning experience overall has sucked. Big time. I have done nothing except opening closing and opening my forums again, and it's driving me and everyone else here crazy. I owe you guys a big apology for this. Now I'm sure you're going to say that I don't owe you anything, but I feel like I do. Over this last year, it's just been outrageous. Some mornings I go on Marie 1988 and I'm adding new posts and topics and stuff and it's like: Why did I even run a forum to begin with? It's obvious I don't have the drive to be an administrator. I'm the kind of person who's a follower, not a leader. But then I sit back and I'm thankful for what I got. I finally got an awesome community; not many members but quite a few posts. I still get complaints occasionally that I'm not on a host where I can control my forum, and that's not something I want as I have no knowledge of Cpanel or anything of the sort. Ah, I'll just bring over a couple topics from my forum about this.
Hey everyone, I feel like I owe you an explanation, and an apology.
I originally started owning a forum back in 2008 because I was so caught up in the phase, and at first I just wanted to see if I could do it. The first host, as some of you will recall, was with Forumotion. That host was okay, but they kept having downtime at what seemed to be every Friday nights due to some what seemed to be desperately needed "updates". And I was sick and tired of all the PMs and emails of, "is there some reason why we are down yet again?" And I was sick of responding over and over with, "This isn't my fault; I don't know what is going on." And then I found out about all these updates, and it was just driving me mad. Then I moved hosts again and started fresh with another forum. I don't know why but it just seemed to be going in a pattern after a while, and honestly, it is getting pathetic. I didn't move hosts because I had to; I at first moved because I was sick of all the updates, but after a while, it just became a stupid habit that I seriously regret. It seemed like I was never satisfied with any host. I would stay there for a week or two, and then I'd get the urge to move again.
I know all of you, from what used to be Forum Advertiser, down to Forum Promotion, as well as other sites are ticked at me for all this moving around, and I would like to publicly apologize for this. Moving hosts as often as I have done is wrong, and it's a great way to lose what could have been since 2008 millions of members.
I promise that the only way I will ever leave ProPHPBB this time around, is if they shut their doors for good. In which case I will gladly search for another host. But as of right now, nothing, and I mean nothing, beats the awesome services of ProPHPBB.
Again, moving hosts as often as I have done this past year is nothing more than a disgusting habit. I wish to publicly apologize for my behavior, because I really want to see Marie 1988 enter its first year on the Net as a successful forum. I hereby wish to forever abandon my foolish ways of moving hosts, and to stay here at ProPHPBB, and really enjoy the services they offer.
I just really want to say that I'm sorry we have been moving hosts so much. I have used ProPHPBB before and I love these guys. Helpful, fast reliable service, what more can a beginner administrator like me ask for? I promise I will stick around this time. I hope you and future members can forgive me.
How would you say your experience as a forum owner has been overall? I would say that my experience as a forum owner has been nothing but crap, to put it mildly! I have a bad reputation of opening, closing, and opening forums again, and it's ticking me as well as other people off. I almost gave up this forum, but there's no way I can do so when my now co-administrator is still in school, and I love running a forum in general. I really want to stay with one site on one host because I want us to go into our first anniversary next year with happy spirits and good state of minds. Forum Promotion is seriously pissed at me for my behavior, and I can't say that I blame them, because I don't. But I also don't think they realize that I'm not the first, nor will I be the last, forum administrator to have this problem. I'm sure there must have been quite a few forum owners who open and close their doors, and make up excuses not to run a forum anymore, when deep down they really want to. One person in particular keeps trying to tell me that I should give up trying to run a forum, because I always get upset when things don't work out or go my way; which is true, actually. There are times when I get so upset about things not going my way on forums like this that I end up just shutting it down, and then I get the sudden desire to open one again no less than two weeks later! It's a pathetic habit. I'd hate to go back to FP and try to advertise this site again being as it's mine once again. I wouldn't be surprised if they soon banned me for opening and closing my forums too much! Wober is another one I'm too scared to advertise at for the same reasons. The only ones I feel safe at advertising at is Advertise-Forums and Forum Crazy, as they're still relatively small forums, and the staff there at either forum don't go chewing me out every time I get tired of running a forum. In fact, I am thinking of having at least one more co-administrator in case I get another urge to close it, then I'll have more than one someone who's got my back and stuff and who can take over for me if I feel burned out again. I'm tired of getting these stupid feelings. And I resolve to keep Marie 1988 open no matter what. No matter how many bad days in the real life I have, no matter how burned out I feel, I'm just going to grit my teeth and try my luck at this, because I really want to see us go into our first year anniversary; even our second year would be nice. I need your guys' help and support in doing this. Don't give up on me, and please, if I get the urge to close this place down, try to talk me out of it... even if my co administrator has to give me a temporary ban, I give him permission to do that. So, how has your experience as a forum owner been so far?
They're both kind of the same; but they'll give you a general idea as to how my experience has been overall.
Hey everyone, I feel like I owe you an explanation, and an apology.
I originally started owning a forum back in 2008 because I was so caught up in the phase, and at first I just wanted to see if I could do it. The first host, as some of you will recall, was with Forumotion. That host was okay, but they kept having downtime at what seemed to be every Friday nights due to some what seemed to be desperately needed "updates". And I was sick and tired of all the PMs and emails of, "is there some reason why we are down yet again?" And I was sick of responding over and over with, "This isn't my fault; I don't know what is going on." And then I found out about all these updates, and it was just driving me mad. Then I moved hosts again and started fresh with another forum. I don't know why but it just seemed to be going in a pattern after a while, and honestly, it is getting pathetic. I didn't move hosts because I had to; I at first moved because I was sick of all the updates, but after a while, it just became a stupid habit that I seriously regret. It seemed like I was never satisfied with any host. I would stay there for a week or two, and then I'd get the urge to move again.
I know all of you, from what used to be Forum Advertiser, down to Forum Promotion, as well as other sites are ticked at me for all this moving around, and I would like to publicly apologize for this. Moving hosts as often as I have done is wrong, and it's a great way to lose what could have been since 2008 millions of members.
I promise that the only way I will ever leave ProPHPBB this time around, is if they shut their doors for good. In which case I will gladly search for another host. But as of right now, nothing, and I mean nothing, beats the awesome services of ProPHPBB.
Again, moving hosts as often as I have done this past year is nothing more than a disgusting habit. I wish to publicly apologize for my behavior, because I really want to see Marie 1988 enter its first year on the Net as a successful forum. I hereby wish to forever abandon my foolish ways of moving hosts, and to stay here at ProPHPBB, and really enjoy the services they offer.
I just really want to say that I'm sorry we have been moving hosts so much. I have used ProPHPBB before and I love these guys. Helpful, fast reliable service, what more can a beginner administrator like me ask for? I promise I will stick around this time. I hope you and future members can forgive me.
How would you say your experience as a forum owner has been overall? I would say that my experience as a forum owner has been nothing but crap, to put it mildly! I have a bad reputation of opening, closing, and opening forums again, and it's ticking me as well as other people off. I almost gave up this forum, but there's no way I can do so when my now co-administrator is still in school, and I love running a forum in general. I really want to stay with one site on one host because I want us to go into our first anniversary next year with happy spirits and good state of minds. Forum Promotion is seriously pissed at me for my behavior, and I can't say that I blame them, because I don't. But I also don't think they realize that I'm not the first, nor will I be the last, forum administrator to have this problem. I'm sure there must have been quite a few forum owners who open and close their doors, and make up excuses not to run a forum anymore, when deep down they really want to. One person in particular keeps trying to tell me that I should give up trying to run a forum, because I always get upset when things don't work out or go my way; which is true, actually. There are times when I get so upset about things not going my way on forums like this that I end up just shutting it down, and then I get the sudden desire to open one again no less than two weeks later! It's a pathetic habit. I'd hate to go back to FP and try to advertise this site again being as it's mine once again. I wouldn't be surprised if they soon banned me for opening and closing my forums too much! Wober is another one I'm too scared to advertise at for the same reasons. The only ones I feel safe at advertising at is Advertise-Forums and Forum Crazy, as they're still relatively small forums, and the staff there at either forum don't go chewing me out every time I get tired of running a forum. In fact, I am thinking of having at least one more co-administrator in case I get another urge to close it, then I'll have more than one someone who's got my back and stuff and who can take over for me if I feel burned out again. I'm tired of getting these stupid feelings. And I resolve to keep Marie 1988 open no matter what. No matter how many bad days in the real life I have, no matter how burned out I feel, I'm just going to grit my teeth and try my luck at this, because I really want to see us go into our first year anniversary; even our second year would be nice. I need your guys' help and support in doing this. Don't give up on me, and please, if I get the urge to close this place down, try to talk me out of it... even if my co administrator has to give me a temporary ban, I give him permission to do that. So, how has your experience as a forum owner been so far?
They're both kind of the same; but they'll give you a general idea as to how my experience has been overall.
