Forums without moderators.

[Bookwormlux1]

Is it possible for a site owner to be able to handle everything alone without seeing the need to hire a moderator to help out in getting to manage some aspects of the forum, like cleaning thrash contents, approving new members and all that?

Personally, I think the site owner won't find it easy at all because the demand would be too much on him..

What do you think??

 

[saoussen5766]

A forum can have no moderators because moderators can be not found but there are other ranks like for example Grammar corrector or Plagiarism checker or other terms used or anything so a user with special access to moderate but the rank is not called moderator as most of the members aren't friendly with this name.

 

[WebKitty]

Most forums will have members willing to do tasks for free, just to be a mod. I wouldn't worry about hiring people.

In the early stages, most forums can be completely run and handled by one person. I do this on one of my forums no problem. I have about 15 active members that come and go and everyone gets along fine.

 

[19news]

Usually I manage my own forum by myself. But I don’t mind the extra help and team members.

 

[Sherman198]

One person can handle their forum alone, if they perhaps have all the time needed to take care of things properly.....Most people that hired moderators don't have enough time to the job themselves.

 

[Jason]

It depends on how active the forum is. I mean, I have a social media group and it's simply impossible for me to watch it 24/7. In that case, I have chosen to manually approve posts. Well, the other option is getting a paid moderator.

 

[HK World]

When your forum is getting a lot of traffic, it might become chaotic after some time, if it has no moderator. What you can do in such a situation is encourage your loyal users to become moderators, who would mark comments as spam. This will save you in the long run.

 

[Jason]

Again, I can't speak for forums, but for a social media group, I simply can't keep off-topic stuff out. I don't really understand what people are thinking when they post the stuff. I guess it's O.K. to some people. However, it drives away the type of fans I want.

Anyway, a forum without moderators might have a tough time keeping out spammers who are not spambots. Well, sometimes people pay people to spam forums - only to get a that signature link going.

 

[Nad1afa]

It’s unlikely! Unmoderated online forums can easily transform to a toxic space, open to spam, threats, abuse, and Illegal content.

 

[Busybee]

Moderators are an essential part of every forum. Either the administrator can act as a moderator or can have a separate moderator. Moderators would be helpful in tackling spammers and hate mongers.

 

[BrolySSJ]

Is it possible for a site owner to be able to handle everything alone without seeing the need to hire a moderator to help out in getting to manage some aspects of the forum, like cleaning thrash contents, approving new members and all that?

Personally, I think the site owner won't find it easy at all because the demand would be too much on him..

What do you think??

I think that this is an extremely difficult task and it is not something that many people can do and it will always happen that some of the bad bad quality message will always be overlooked as a result you have to be able to have other people that can take on some of the workload.

 

[Kane]

My answer would be YES! Currently, I have two fully functional forums and I do not have any moderators. These forums not only get some daily activities and traffic but also some money via AdSense. If you can give at least one hour time on your forum., I think you can easily run a small community without any moderators.