Hire the active poster? Why it's not always a good idea!

[Shole]

We all owned a forum at some point or were an admin or team leader in one, and we all know the hardship of hireing a new member. Of course we all have some certain requirements for people to joing our awesome staff, but why is it sometimes wrong to hire the most active poster?

My innital thoughts were that they drift off and start doing more staff jobs and stop being so active as a poster, but then I thought about it a bit longer and came to the conclusion that the end goal has been reached.

By end goal I am referring to some people seeing everything in an achievement/goal like scenario, if I am the best poster I win, after that if I get selected to staff I win, and most stop at getting selected as a staff member. I know from my experience as soon as my name was bolded and in another color, it seemed like I made it and don't have to put the effort in anymore. But that was my old and wrong approach.

Usually from my experience I tend to avoid getting someone from the top posting ranks, but as in everything in life, there are exceptions. It won't always happen like the scenario above but I wrote this for some new onwers to be warry.

How would you deal with such a new staff member? What are your staff recruiting requests?

 

[Blessedsam60]

In everything in life, there are Advantages and at the same time there are a lot of Disadvantages. But to me hiring an active poster should be a plus to a website if managed well instead of becoming an issue.

 

[Shole]

In everything in life, there are Advantages and at the same time there are a lot of Disadvantages. But to me hiring an active poster should be a plus to a website if managed well instead of becoming an issue.

Care to elaborate your answer more? What would be the biggest benefit ?

 

[BrolySSJ]

I don't think that this approach is necessarily true and it will all depend on the person because if they are actually believing in the website then obviously they are going to try and make it as best as possible and therefore I think that you will be able to hire them.

 

[Kane]

If you do not get a volunteer poster, what option do you have to build activities? If you have members but they are not creating high quality posts, or searchable posts, what option do you have except hiring quality posters.