Individual Staff Forums

[Cierra]

Do you allow your staff members to each have their own staff sub-forum?

It's not needed for my forum, at least right now. Anything that would be posted in an individual forum can be posted in our "office" forum which basically holds ideas, questions, suggestions, etc. I have my own sub-forum though because I like to test new ideas before I implement them board wide, keep records, and draft up new features. I guess if you have a very large forum with many admins you might like to let them keep track of their own stuff.

 

[Teapot]

No, I usually don't allow individual staff forums like that. The only people who have ever really been allowed to have one are administrators.

 

[Reverse Flash]

*cough* FE's staff offices *cough*

No, I don't. No point in doing so.

 

[Deleted member 17779]

I've never done this on with my own forum. I can see doing this with a big forum but until a forum gets to a certain size and/or activity level, I don't really see the need to do this.

 

[THF_Martin]

I don't do them/like doing them personally. I can understand doing it for a separate admin forum if they are talking about staff members and want to discuss something without other staff seeing it, but other groups are unnecessary in my opinion as it can just distort communication and cause confusion.

 

[ddoesmc]

I don't have individual forums, but I have group forums. It's enough for my forums.

 

[Thomasss]

I don't see why one would need an individual forum - everything I make in the admin/staff forum should be seen with other staff members with the permissions of that board.

That, and it just adds another board to the clutter, and in MyBB it's not exactly easy managing forums. 😛