Negative sideeffects of being a webmaster

[MrEyes]

Originally Posted by Vtec44

* Late working hours.

Yes, my site is like a second job. A second job that doesn't pay very well

Originally Posted by Vtec44

* People always complain.

Yep

Originally Posted by Vtec44

* Idiots that think they're entitled to everything because they have a subscription.

Yep

I have a usergroup on my site that contains members that are not allowed to subscribe. Yes I loose some cash, but I save the hassle of the "I pay for this and you have moderate my 'quality contributions'" private messages.

Originally Posted by Vtec44

* You can never make everyone happy

Yep

When I started my forum I had some extremely naive ideas about keeping all the people happy all the time. After a few months I realised that I could only maintain the site if I placed the sites, and the community as a whole, interests first.

I run my forum as a business which means that I do have to expose some personal information, i.e. my name and address. However I paid for a PO Box number (not sure what the equivalent is in the US) so my domain name whois info is:

Company Name
PO BOX 12345
City

This prevents anybody who has nothing better to do from knocking on my door.