Need moderators for a forum.

[fundash]

My dad and I just purchased vBulletin and are going to be running a forum on his site. My dad is the inventor of uberstix, and the website is http://uberstix.com/ I am going to be the main admin for it, but I might not always have time to delete spam, etc. If anyone is willing to help, just say so.

Uberstix Forum admin,
Dashel Scarborough

 

[JustinJ]

From reading the page you linked, I thought this was a joke until I watched the video, I had no idea what I was reading about.

 

[Things_falling_apart]

Shouldn't you choose moderators from the regular people posting at your forum? If it is new, the forum will be slow at first, so it doesn't take a lot of time to moderate and you can do it yourseelf. As it grows there will be certain people who will stand out with a lot of knowledge, show patience, have a desire to be helpful and demonstrate good posting etiquette and thus earn your trust to be a moderator at the forum. One thing that kills a forum quickly is forums which choose their friends as moderators instead of the people who should be moderators based of the above listed qualities. Asking random people who wants to be a moderator is bad idea. Choose the person after a lot of consideration based on how they help our particular forum and not take random volunteers.

That is my advice, and (as always) take it with a grain of salt.

 

[fundash]

ok

 

[cincyaviation]

There are at least 2 spelling errors in the video.

 

[Dene]

fundash! It's been a while! Still cubing?

 

[splinteh]

uber awesome

 

[LewisJ]

Some tips from my own experience administering forums:
1. As someone said, pick your moderators carefully. You should know the person you appoint as a moderator well and should be on the same page with them regarding what needs moderated, and you should get along with them quite well. That doesn't mean confine your moderators only to friends etc, just make sure your moderators are trustworthy people. The main point though: don't ever have too many moderators, especially when the forum is young; it makes for a weird community. If you have 20 active community members and 5 moderators, something's not right! From my own experience, if you're putting as much into running the forum as you should be, your own moderation efforts should be plenty until the forum has at least a couple thousand posts. Then consider a moderator or two.
2. Perhaps it's bit late for me to say this, but vB is completely unnecessary for a forum; try some free systems like SMF, PHPBB, or FluxBB before deciding to buy vB, you might find something you like just as much for free.
3. Just because your forum is there doesn't mean they will come; it isn't a retail storefront in a shopping mall. Unless you put something into it, don't expect anything of the forum.