Site Management Have any of your staff disappeared after promotion?

[Heatman]

Human beings can change in an instant. There's no telling what someone can do at any time. I've witnessed some cases where someone who's in a staff team ends up disappearing after they got a big promotion. I understand that life happens without giving us a heads up and there's no way of helping such situations.

Have any of your staff disappeared after promotion? How did you handle the situation? Did you wait for the staff to come back when things settle for them or demote them?

 

[Cory]

Yes, one staff member disappeared for about half a year before I decided to demote them back to a member for their inactivity. I probably waited too long to demote them, but they had no interest in the forum anymore.

 

[joelr]

I'm always surprised by people who come back and get in a huffy about not staying as staff!

 

[Ja sa bong]

I'm always surprised by people who come back and get in a huffy about not staying as staff!

They are feeling entitled like the forum depends on them or owe them.

 

[Shortie]

This hasn't happened often to me but I have had instances where members who have been promoted to staff have stopped coming around after being promoted. I usually reach out and wait to see if I hear from them before I demote them as I know that life can get hectic.

 

[Ravenfreak]

My co admin on Thee Zone hasn't really been online much. She gets on Discord a bit more, but I've never really begged for her to return. My forum is a bit quiet anyways so I don't mind being the main active staff.

 

[Henrywrites]

I have been on a forum that it happened. Personally, when I feel like that I am not ready to stay on a team, I am always quick to step down instead of going awol. It doesn't always end well most of the time.

 

[Darth Cognus]

What I find somewhat frequent is less the huff of being removed as it is little things to keep a grasp despite adding nothing. Coming in at the edges of the inactivity policy, miraculously popping up when the topic comes up, asked if they'd like to step back 'nah...' despite no contributions over a very prolonged period.

But I have a few dead to rights examples of volunteer prodigies suddenly vanishing too. This is a bit painful as you may expect, they might have been the 'new generation' in a project or really good at certain things that fall by the wayside.