Paid Moderators - how much should you pay
- Thread starter OldTimer
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Moderation is one of the most basic jobs you can have on a forum, so unless the site has thousands of registered users online any given day, I don't see how payment could be justified. It's just not a demanding job, and most active forums don't even have a self-sustaining income.
Well this is the thing it is a new forum and free help is not working so I am now looking at paid help
pay them on how much they put into the work, like $15 a month
Bluezone777
Dinner Team Leader
I think your issue with finding staff is due to your board's layout. It's far too large for the activity level that your forum is getting. The layout being large makes it look dead and inactive which is going to turn off people from joining the community and with that finding any staff to be apart of it as more often than not the staff usually is found from within the member base itself.
As the forum grows, you can start dividing generalized forum sections into more specific ones based on the topics being made. I also wouldn't hold any form of trading section until your forum has an established community base as I doubt people are going to trust trading things with people they don't know very well and on a forum that has no guarantee that it's going to stick around. It's also important with any section like the trading section or the advertising section that rules and guidelines are posted so people know what to do in order to properly use those sections. I feel if you keep posting new topics after shrinking the layout down will ultimately sort out your staff issue.
As the forum grows, you can start dividing generalized forum sections into more specific ones based on the topics being made. I also wouldn't hold any form of trading section until your forum has an established community base as I doubt people are going to trust trading things with people they don't know very well and on a forum that has no guarantee that it's going to stick around. It's also important with any section like the trading section or the advertising section that rules and guidelines are posted so people know what to do in order to properly use those sections. I feel if you keep posting new topics after shrinking the layout down will ultimately sort out your staff issue.
@Bluezone777 I removed the trade section, thanks for that but I have always found it harder to add other sections at a later stage making sure that all threads are then sorted as they should be. I looked at what is left and cannot see any other area that really is not needed at this point in time without confusing or missing out on some topics members might want to post about.
I don't give my forum staff regular pay, but I do think having rewards every now and then such as a gift card raffle or something for staff only is a great way to give something back for their work. This is not as expensive as regularly paying them and forums, especially smaller ones, rarely if ever make enough revenue to cover their basic costs let alone salaries for the staff.
If you have a forum currency which can be used to buy things, that can be great way to "pay" your staff as well.
If you have a forum currency which can be used to buy things, that can be great way to "pay" your staff as well.
@Golddisk that is how I want to work it once the forum is established but just getting over this start-up stage is always a hard one. As I cannot seem to attract free help the only other way would be paid help. I have made out a thread here but nothing as yet. I suppose not putting down an actual $ amount might be putting some off but having no idea of what would be expected I just thought this was the easy way to do it.
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Shannon Apple
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Add prefixes to your site. You are running Xenforo, so this feature is already there, so you should most definitely make use of it. You can later use those prefixes to move threads into new sections. You still have way too many forums. People on our site have asked for a "Health & Fitness" and a "Technology" section. We told them that if there are enough threads made in the general section on those topics, then we will create separate forums for them at a later date. That was a time ago.
If you look here, you can see that there is no need for those yet, and our forum is a lot more active than yours.
http://www.sakugacity.com/forums/general-discussion.20/
You should have one section for TV & Movies. You have many sections that are too similar and should be consolidated. Have tags for Movies, TV ads, TVseries and so on.
Why is Literature separate from Books/Comics etc? Those are almost the same thing.Maybe something like "Printed Media - Then and Now" and have tags for everything. Books, Retro Posters, Comics, Magazines and so on.
Your forum looks dead. If you consolidate and encourage friends to actually create topics and reply to yours it will look better. When people see that all topics are made by the same person, they're less likely to post. You would be far better off making some deal with a few people here on FP. Post for Post thing to make new topics and reply to ones you've made and you do the same for them. At such an early stage, you can do all the moderating yourself. You don't need more mods until it kicks off.
The worst thing about paying people for such a new forum is that you can't go back on it. They'll leave if you stop paying them and new mods will expect to be paid. You want people who love being part of your community and want to help it. Start as you mean to go on. 🙂
If you look here, you can see that there is no need for those yet, and our forum is a lot more active than yours.
http://www.sakugacity.com/forums/general-discussion.20/
You should have one section for TV & Movies. You have many sections that are too similar and should be consolidated. Have tags for Movies, TV ads, TVseries and so on.
Why is Literature separate from Books/Comics etc? Those are almost the same thing.Maybe something like "Printed Media - Then and Now" and have tags for everything. Books, Retro Posters, Comics, Magazines and so on.
Your forum looks dead. If you consolidate and encourage friends to actually create topics and reply to yours it will look better. When people see that all topics are made by the same person, they're less likely to post. You would be far better off making some deal with a few people here on FP. Post for Post thing to make new topics and reply to ones you've made and you do the same for them. At such an early stage, you can do all the moderating yourself. You don't need more mods until it kicks off.
The worst thing about paying people for such a new forum is that you can't go back on it. They'll leave if you stop paying them and new mods will expect to be paid. You want people who love being part of your community and want to help it. Start as you mean to go on. 🙂
I have now trimmed away a full category and feel if I trim it much more it will look rather sparse 😱
Shannon Apple
Resident
Looks better.
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