Empowering Success: The Leadership Dilemma of Spreading vs. Hoarding Power

[Mandy]

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[MrDawn]

It's no skin off of my nose if they don't want to delegate privileges to those volunteering for staff. I'll either stay a member or look elsewhere and work under a different forum owner.

 

[joelr]

It's no skin off of my nose if they don't want to delegate privileges to those volunteering for staff. I'll either stay a member or look elsewhere and work under a different forum owner.

Can I flip the scenario to: what if you were the admin?

Are there areas where you spread power or where you might want to retain power?

 

[MrDawn]

Are there areas where you spread power or where you might want to retain power?

When I owned my forum, I was all about spreading power. I wanted and I needed the help. Keep in mind that there is nothing that an Administrator cannot restore if a moderator were to make a grave error. Admins can restore threads, restore deleted accounts, merge accounts, lift bans, and a whole slew of other things through the admin control panel. So, why not give mods ban privileges? They can't really do any permanent damage if they were to go nuts.