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04-02-2009, 04:53 AM
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Faith - Family - Friends - and Medieval Total War 2 on the pc
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04-02-2009, 07:29 AM
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Time away from the board. Mine has always pretty much run itself, which is nice too.
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04-02-2009, 05:30 PM
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Zach. I wish it was that easy.
Can't quit it because it's tied to my company. Can't suck it up anymore because it's friggen killing me-so much stress. Can't sell it. Nobody wants this controversy. LOL It's not my members, Vbulletin software, it's the nature of my forum. Very controversial. Angry crowd(rightfully so) Constant legal crap, constantly having to investigate things. I try to step away for a few days but inevitably I have to return to make a ruling of which my moderators can never do legally or research an IP address to set things in motion. Sucks for lack of better adult terms. Well at least a have a great host now and that has taken a huge tech load of me now so I can concentrate on all the rest of the bullshit. Anyway, thanks for listening to my whine.
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04-02-2009, 05:47 PM
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Good administrators that will pick up when you need slack. I am so very fortunate to have mine. Unbelievable dedication, year after year. When one of us gets burnt out the other one picks up the slack. Sometimes you need a break to recharge your bullshit stamina. LOL
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04-03-2009, 01:35 PM
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Most Admins will not admit to burning out. They'll carry on regardless of the fact they are doing more harm than good therefore making the community suffer for the things they do/do not do.
Maybe this is down to the brain going into meltdown whether it's due to aging/bolding or simply a mid life crisis though regardless of that you shouldn't pass that onto the community if you can't see in yourself your stagnated beyond belief and can not/will not/ever do anything right but to make yourself feel better in a privileged position then your blind and selfish. I've never suffered from admin burnout but I do take time away from my forum from time to time. Once I return and make a few posts the traffic picks right up again and surpasses previous months statistics.
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04-03-2009, 05:34 PM
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No Shelley, I'm pretty sure mine is from my subject. LOL Running a controversial health based forum is far different that running any other type forum. Most subjects are inconsequential and fun, mine isn't. My forum is great and successful but not without a ton of work. Additionally, I have federal regulations I have to follow unlike most admins on vb.org., so there is that huge added nonsense. Not to mention the phone calls early in the morning or late at night because someone has posted a suicidal post which only forum owners can respond to and contact police if necessary due to federal privacy laws. And the preying lawyers, case managers, physicians, physician's staff..... funny they're so stupid they don't even know we watch things closely and when they create a post it's so obvious.
 Thats kind of stuff is the amusing part of running a forum like mine and we do get a few good laughs for dumbasses like this but it also takes me away from the more important things I need to do, the people we CAN help when I have to take care of stuff like this. This does gets old after a while. For the record, a Ph.D, M.D. or law degreee doesn't necessarily make one smart. LOL We do not have the luxury of shutting down, altering or doing anything else with our forum according to moods, vacation, burn out or personal problems. And I don't find being an admin privileged in the least-I find added responsibility, that's it. It is far easier to drop by a forum, post a little, then run it, especially mine AND I'm sure forums as big as this one. Most everyone who comes to this site does so for forums that aren't tied to a real corporation-just mostly for a forum they put up because of a subject they like. I have a few forums like as well and there is a huge difference between running a silly fun sports or gaming site than running a site in which people make health related decisions from. Of course, I hire out the tech aspect of it for the big stuff, but I cannot hire out the human side of my public access forum. My forum does a lot of good and it's a valuable resource but it attracts a ton of controversy and for me, this is where the burn out comes from. I had held out for a long time in adding a free public access forum for these reasons. A monkey can log into vb.org admin control panel and press a few buttons, ban a member, add a forum, it's all the other human stuff that gets difficult. The saving grace for us is that we have great members and we have to do very little moderation accept for newbie accounts. I think if we had to do a ton of moderation, I would motion to shut it down for sure. My forums is growing exponentially for some reason and I think this is contributing to my burn out a bit. We prefer a slow growing forum for a subject like mine. I see that a lot of corporate health based public sites eventually becoming unmoderated and full of spam. I wonder why that is? Anyone know? Or they are become so filled with advertising that the subject eventually becomes second. I mean, I'm not talking about small corporations like mine, I'm talking about some of the big ones who have the financial means to hire an enourmous forum staff but choose to ignore their forum instead. :erm: Again, thank you for indulging my whining... Cancun is looking really good right now.  Gabby
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