Setting a Minimum Staff Post Count

[Keizo]

WELL!


Let me put my 2 cents on this.


I choose my staff not based on their activity, but the quality of their posts. The way they stay staff is if they do their job. I have many staffers who merely appear "Offline" And do the basic moderator job of deleting spam and trash. Makes my job a lot easier, if you were to make them post a certain amount of times a day(Which I tried, mind you.) They'll easier stick with it(Cause they're wonderful staff) Or they'll quit. and you don't want the second one, do you?

 

[The Reverend]

I think there are much better ways to determine how well a staff member is doing other then depending on the number of posts. Quality beats quantity any day in my eyes and for a moderator, not all the tasks they do are visible. Moderators need to be online to deal with issues, delete posts/spam and resolve issues usually via PM. They can do all this without posting. If you have a post requirement, a moderator could come on for 5 minutes a day, post 5 welcome replies and ignore reports and issues needing moderator attention. Does that make this moderator better at their job just because they make 5 posts a day? No in my opinion.

Big +1 for this. I am not a posting freak but I still manage to do my job at any forums I become staff on. That said, on smaller, less active forums active staff members are vital to the community. Although setting a post count requirement can make staff members feel too controlled and it's really pressure that they dont need 🙂

 

[jdab]

Personally I don't think this is a good idea as not all staff are posting staff, for example one of the Admins on my forum is mainly on the tech side of it, rather than posting.