Admin Well-being Ever Had a Tussle With Your Co-Admin

[Nomad]

Running a community needs a lot of money and a lot work, therefore, many people prefer to have a co-admin in their communities. These co-admins might be partners or just another staff with administrative access. Do you have a secondary admin in your forum, have you worked as a secondary admin on someone else's forum, did you ever have any kind of conflict (related to money, community management, or otherwise)? How did you solve it?

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I have in the past.

I can't remember what forum it was, but a co-admin didn't like how I did things and would change settings and what not to reflect how they wanted it.

Yet, I was the one who paid for everything.

It later taught me to only have one admin (myself) and the rest of the team have moderator status.

And that's really all you need unless you have to have a tech admin or something like that.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I had a admin on one of my old Proboards forums change our theme and install a bunch of themes that didn't fit the niche. I demoted her since I didn't trust her after that. I know it's not as bad as having an Admin go completely rogue and delete everything but it still broke my trust.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I had a admin on one of my old Proboards forums change our theme and install a bunch of themes that didn't fit the niche. I demoted her since I didn't trust her after that. I know it's not as bad as having an Admin go completely rogue and delete everything but it still broke my trust.

She should had consulted with you.

I mean you were a team, right?

 

[Ravenfreak]

She should had consulted with you.

I mean you were a team, right?

Exactly! She didn't say she was changing the themes, all she needed to do was consult me first and we could have agreed on a few different themes. Communication is key.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Communication is key.

A failure in communication can bring down a nation.

 

[Nomad]

It later taught me to only have one admin (myself) and the rest of the team have moderator status

I once had a co-admin, she also was an investor and we have an agreement where we had to consult each other before making changes. We never have had any issue. However, just like you I also believe that if you are the one who has invested money you should never give administrative access to other people. You can have moderators and community managers but not the co-admin.