How many years of staff experience do you have?

[Ravenfreak]

So it's no wonder that pretty much everyone here on this forum have at least been a moderator or admin on their own forum or perhaps on others. How many years do you have being staff on a forum? I say I have at least 5 or 6 years experience, could be longer though. I've been staff on a few forums throughout the years, and have set up forums quite a bit. I'm well experienced when it comes to installing forums on servers too. I'm just a forum nerd! xD

 

[Kale]

I've been a forum mod for years now. Also forum admin too for some forums or my own. I've been online for so long, and found forums around the mid 00s.

 

[Cedric]

I’ve been on forums since ‘02-‘03. I think staff / managing my own forum began in ‘04, so I’d say close to 20 years experience. 😅

 

[Shortie]

I have been running forums myself since 2004/2005 So I would say I have around 18 - 19 years of experience as staff on a forum through being an admin, moderator, and also other staff positions through the years.

 

[Cory]

At least half the time, if not more that I've been on forums, I believe, which is nearly two decades.

 

[Strawberry]

I started using forums in about 2006/2007 and pretty much jumped straight into doing various roles like moderating, package team, review team and administrator. I even dabbled in Photoshop for a bit and was graphics team, although I would be extremely rusty at that now... I think the last Photoshop package I used was CS3.

I moved away from being an avid user of forums in about 2013 in favour of using social media and I felt that forums were starting to become a dying trend and a lot of newer forums were samey and coming into an already oversaturated market. I did continue to use a few, but mainly lurked.

So I'd say that I probably have about 6 or 7 years experience of being staff, but it's probably like riding a bike, right?

 

[an0nym0us]

More than 7 years mods and sysadmin..

 

[Anachiwo]

I haven't worked as a staff in any forum in the past. I feel more relaxed being just a member without the exta responsibility of being a staff member. I don't like being compelled to work because I'm a staff.

 

[Heatman]

I started joining the staff team in forums 3 or 4 years ago. It's something I started late because I never looked into it before. It was a very good friend of mine that talked me into joining staff team to improve my knowledge on how things goes on in the backend of forums.

 

[ladyquack]

I started joining forums around 2003, but did very small mod jobs here and there. My largest experience has been a site I've been admin on for 9 years.

 

[Cedric]

I started joining forums around 2003, but did very small mod jobs here and there. My largest experience has been a site I've been admin on for 9 years.

That’s impressive. What forum was that?

 

[SpookyZalost]

I've really only been the admin for makestation and the revived simmania. But I've been at it since about 2018/2019 so about 5 years working to keep things running and try to improve on things.

 

[PGen98]

I started in forums in 1995-ish, got my first mod spot in 1998 and been on staff on at least one forum ever since, so...25 years...Oh geez...

 

[SpookyZalost]

@PGen98 that means you know about BBS softwares and stuff like early vBulletin and Ikonboard right?

 

[Cory]

I started in forums in 1995-ish

Wow, that's a long time on forums and here I thought 2 decades was a long time.

 

[PGen98]

@PGen98 that means you know about BBS softwares and stuff like early vBulletin and Ikonboard right?

Basic understanding of BBS software, and yes, I was around for early UBB, vB, iKonBoard, phpBB1, all the fun stuff

Wow, that's a long time on forums and here I thought 2 decades was a long time.

2 decades is a long time

 

[otis booard]

I created the Otis Booard forum in 2006, I think!

 

[Arantor]

Simultaneously too much and not enough: I've been around, seen a lot of things, very little surprises me any more, but at the same time I still feel like there's new things to learn.

 

[Heatman]

Simultaneously too much and not enough: I've been around, seen a lot of things, very little surprises me any more, but at the same time I still feel like there's new things to learn.

Of course yes, there's been a lot of improvement from what we know forums to be like years ago. They are no where near being the same. Even though social media have knocked down hard on the use of forums, it's still kicking up well.

 

[Reverie]

I began staff positions in 2004 I believe. I've been on forums since 2003. Quite a bit of experience within that time. It's crazy that it's been 20ish years. Several breaks in there though as well, but 2004 - 2008 I was always staff on at least 2 forums or I was running a forum. 2010-2011 I returned and became staff at a forum... Disappeared again until 2013ish and became an admin at one, got kicked off and became an admin at another and disappeared around 2016 or so. So for sure about 9-10 years worth of being staff at a forum.