Minimum post count when hiring a staff member?

[22_22]

When you are looking for staff through seeking employment threads do you look for this and ask a user to make X amount of posts on your forum before you approve them as staff so you don't have a staff member with 3-4 posts, for example.

Or do you upgrade their rank anyway and let their post count rise when they are ready?

 

[remonray]

When you are looking for staff through seeking employment threads do you look for this and ask a user to make X amount of posts on your forum before you approve them as staff so you don't have a staff member with 3-4 posts, for example.

Or do you upgrade their rank anyway and let their post count rise when they are ready?

That depends upon the ranks.Like for package team,posts shouldn't be problem unless they can do packages.And for other posts we must consider.
Personally,I don't care post counts if they seem to work hard/remain active.

 

[SP33D_D3MON]

Second option. It really doesn't matter to me the post count, I just need them to be there!

 

[Fergal]

I prefer members of my business forum, to have made at least 250 posts, before they become Moderators. That shows that they are committed to the forum and everyone, including me, will know them a bit by the time they have made that many posts.

 

[remonray]

I prefer members of my business forum, to have made at least 250 posts, before they become Moderators. That shows that they are committed to the forum and everyone, including me, will know them a bit by the time they have made that many posts.

It is already a established forum so 250posts with some requirement is okey.And,active people can be unsatisfied by picking up any new people.

 

[Hissae2]

Usually, when I hire a staff member on TMF, they have at least 1000 posts. I may occasionally hire with less, though. I pick the person that I feel would do the best job based on how they've been acting as a member, so there is no set number for post count.

 

[Fergal]

Usually, when I hire a staff member on TMF, they have at least 1000 posts.

It's great to be able to do that, if I had that requirement at BAF, I wouldn't be able to hire staff very often.

 

[Migi]

Post count should not be a big deal in hiring staff members; it actually depends on what kind of work the staff member must/can do. Although post count can indeed show how interested someone is in our forum, it doesn't secure the quality. And we all know which one we prefer.

In one of the forums I go to, there are staff members with more than 5,000 posts (me included), but there are others with only 500 posts. It doesn't matter at all, since both can work and fulfill what their roles need.

So I guess it all returns to what exactly you need the staff for. 🙂

 

[Darthmaul]

Post count should not be a big deal in hiring staff members; it actually depends on what kind of work the staff member must/can do. Although post count can indeed show how interested someone is in our forum, it doesn't secure the quality. And we all know which one we prefer.

In one of the forums I go to, there are staff members with more than 5,000 posts (me included), but there are others with only 500 posts. It doesn't matter at all, since both can work and fulfill what their roles need.

So I guess it all returns to what exactly you need the staff for. 🙂

Awesome post, and awesome summation.
I personally require at least 20 posts on our community, mainly because that at least shows me you're interested in the position. Otherwise, I completely agree. It all depends on the type of work that staff member is doing. If I were a moderator here, for instance, 10 thousand someodd posts wouldn't be completely insane. However, if I were a packager, I would be expected to have at least half that due to the work I am doing 😉

 

[Hissae2]

Usually, when I hire a staff member on TMF, they have at least 1000 posts.

It's great to be able to do that, if I had that requirement at BAF, I wouldn't be able to hire staff very often.

It's not so much a requirement, it's just that typically when I choose a staff member they have that number of posts. It's not a admin forum so I don't need packagers, reviewers, etc I just need moderators, and I pick the person out of the community that I think will do the best job. 🙂

 

[lucasbytegenius]

I always make sure staff members I hire have been very active in the community before I hire them. I don't always go by post count either, if they've made a lot of helpful guides or really high-quality posts, I'll take a few of those than 500 "omg awesome" posts.

 

[Jay]

Before hiring a person on a forum, I would consider that they've already made a substantial amount of contribution to the forums. Just so that I could get a better look at who they are before we give them the power to handle the forum. With different activity levels on forums, it would vary on how much posts you would expect a user to have. For example, if your forum only has about 1,000 posts you can't expect everyone to have 200 posts.

For smaller forums with 1,000-10,000 posts I would hire those who meet expectations and have at least 50-250 posts (50 being the expectation for 1,000 posts and 250 being the expectation for 10,000 posts). For forums bigger than that I would expect anything above 250 posts. Quality of posts also matters to me when hiring someone aswell.

 

[Eternal]

While my forum is still young, I would only require 100 posts before I hired them as a moderator. Once my forum gets larger I will probably increase that to about 250 posts.