What kind of staff structure do you have?
 

Hey all,

I was curious -- what kind of staff structure do some of you guys have? Do you just use the normal Admins, Super Mods, Mods, or does anyone have anything structured?

We're thinking of making some positions like "Director of Arts (Photoshop)", Director of Public Relations (promotes the site), etc. Was just curious if anyone else really had structured their site with different roles and positions -- it's mostly just for fun, but just to delegate some duties that otherwise are too overwhelming for one guy to do by himself.

Thanks for your input. :)

Create some 'UserGroups' ;)

Me Tarzan, You Jane... period! The only way to keep your staff in line is through fierce dictatorship :)

actually, Tarzan and Jane was not a dictatorship, it was only sexual...

btw, on-topic, the best structure is the non-confidence agreement... you have no confidence in nobody, so you give no major access to the site. even if in 6 months they just do good, never be too gentle...

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I'm not planning on giving them access -- I just want to delegate some duties -- getting the word out about our car shows, photoshopping sigs, etc.

This is what I use:

Super Admin: Can use all functions in ACP and edit HTML/Templates; added to the includes/config.php file (only the owner of the board).

Admin: all Admin CP (no SQL, templates, or HTML) only someone you know really well, other wise make them a Super Mod.

Super Moderator: Can use all Moderator functions and ModCP .

Moderator: Can use all Moderator functions.

Support Staff or Leader: Can use very limited Moderator funtions (from this group we pick our future moderators).

with 250 000 active members, we can't afford a regular team structure... we have commities for about anything on the site, and each section is managed by a council that deal with the rules, tuts, reports etc... it makes a 45 persons administration panel... :)

remember that 250 000 members is like a big city -- i live at Quebec city and we are 280 000...

I usually use Super Admin > Admin > Super Mod > Mod. But if need be I create other "Mod" positions.

Once everything is up and running on my site, we'll have a hell of a lot of usergroups lol.

We currently have two Admins (one is a Super Admin - me) and the rest (15-20?) are all Super Mods. We are a pretty tight-knit group, but we have a couple of forums that keep growing and may need more Mods soon and I'm wondering if we should start using the Mod group instead of the Super Mod group now.

My admin structure is... Me Myself and I, mainly because no one posts :( But that might be because I'm not done with the site yet :p

I have 6 admins and 5 moderators to handle about 2000 users.

Ok for the gfx site im making now here is what i use Admin>Super Mod>Moderator>Class Crew> and Designer.
But what i usually use is Admin>Super Moderator or Jr.Admin>Moderator thats what i usually use.
I dont see why people want two different Admin usergroups its a waste of time and it just seems useless.

6 admin :eek

My own forum's staff structure is pretty simple; one admin, a few global moderators and a few normal moderators. Never saw the need for more than one administrator unless a board gets to have a huge memberbase which is growing extremely quickly, and I personally prefer lead moderators because individual forum moderators I find annoying to manage.

I've got myself, a couple of admins with the same full access, and about a half-dozen super moderators with the ability to infract and ban.

I don't tend to worry about a rank system. My team is under strict instructions that they are members of the community first and moderators second. They are also told to kick me up the bum when and if I need it. They do. I also have a specific rule for me - I won't always like or accept advice, but I will always listen.

It works for me and my place.

Rapscallion

My New York Chat site has just me as the admin, and two active super moderators.

My old site had many more super mods and regular moderators, but I was using it as a promotion type in an attempt to reward active members.

In the end that ended up causing a lot of problems.

I think what I learned from that is if I have a big site again that needs more active moderators, set a policy up front that mod positions will be reviewed every 6 months. If you are no longer active and/or generally not a positive influence on the site the spot will go to another member if a better candidate exists.

Think of it more like regular elections than a lifetime appointment.

-Raymond