Site Management Forum Administrator, Forum Webmaster, or Community Manager?

[joelr]

What do each of these terms mean to you? Is there a difference?

More importantly, how does the rest of the web view these roles?

 

[Dilip]

1. Handles everything forum, including dealing with the board software options

2. Forum Webmaster

1 + some coding expertise + server-side abiliites & management skills

3. The people's person on a forum who ensures activity, behaviour and staff roles

 

[Nomad]

Forum admin is someone who owns the forum or has been appointed by the owner to overlook all administrative work in the forum. Community manager is a person who manages the forum and works as a bridge between the admin and users. Forum webmaster is someone who creates, manages, or runs forums. Sometimes these roles interchange.

 

[Wolt]

this coincidentally tracks with the incidences of "forum administrator" or "forum webmaster" in Hacker News comments, for instance, and the convergence to zero reflects how these are deprecated/irrelevant terms--especially "webmaster"

"community manager" tracks with phone ownership and usage cracking >50% in 2013 and the usage of apps like twitter, reddit, facebook/instagram, discord, etc. which is increasingly where the people are--other platforms instead of self-hosted, so also no need really for an "administrator" and certainly not a "webmaster"