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discuss Who's in charge of your community when you're away?

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Sometimes we need to take a break from the internet world. Whether it's because we want to take a break and go on vacation, or if we get sick and can't focus enough to keep an eye on things. Whenever something comes up and you can't visit your community, who takes care of it while you're away? Do you have a co admin that you absolutely trust to ensure things run smoothly? Or if you have a forum, do you shut it down until you return? I know of an admin who would shut down her forum whenever she wasn't feeling well or was going to be offline for a while. She was the only staff member and I suppose in her mind this was the best approach. I can see this being a bit more difficult if you've got a very active Discord server or Facebook group, in this case you would definitely need a few extra staff members so people can still visit and chat. What I do is ensure that my co admin can take care of things while I'm away, I wouldn't want to shut down my communities because I'm sick or on vacation.
 
When I'm MIA from my computer I'm usually away for 7 - 10 days. I'm flying solo with no other staff members, I'm still in charge of it. I have a lot of members and posts, but the posting activity isn't much. I keep an eye on the community consistently via mobile when I'm away from my computer.
 
I just answer the very same question on another forum, I hope it was not you who asked this question. :P
Well, my communities are not active, they don't have organic activities, so even when I log into my communities every day, unless I post, I don't get new posts every day. Therefore, I don't bother about my communities when I am away. I manage communities for many clients and one of my major responsibilities is to bring in activities even when the owner is away.
 
There's a reason why you should have trusted staff members who helps you with running of your forum when you're around and not available. Never pick just anyone and add them to your staff team because some people will bring down your community because of their selfish interest. I've seen it happen many times with some forums.
 
Here, it's @Yama and @Cpvr.

However, I still have an add on in the pipeline where it can be up to the community too.

Across all forums under ownership, senior members will be able to report content, as well as junior members, and the content will be taken down from public view when the number of report points (say 3 for senior and 1 for junior) reaches 3-5 points for manual moderation by staff. There are still some kinks to work out in the overall point process as a disgruntled member could essentially take down the entire forum by reporting everything. So, it would need to be something like up to a maximum of 5 pieces of content that they could report, or something to that extent, to avert a sabotage attempt.
 
I still have an add on in the pipeline where it can be up to the community too.
Having a custom add on where you can put moderation activities on auto pilot by counting votes form senior and junior member can be really great for forum owners. Add on like this one can be abused but it there can be more advantages compared to disadvantages. This will certainly work on vibrant communities but on communities where there are no organic activities this might not work.
 
This will certainly work on vibrant communities but on communities where there are no organic activities this might not work.
That's also another issue to address.

Guests might also be given access to report content (or in the add on's case, changing to "Flag"), and if the content runs through a filtering system of words related to the flag type, 1 guest flagging alone could take down a post for manual review.

It still might not be enough where Google/etc. can see it before action is taken, which may or may not hurt SERPs, but neither is a report by members with manual staff action. Nevertheless, at least there'd be a better failsafe in place than what is currently available.

Letting guests flag content and seeing that it'd disappear from view could also be a net positive for community growth as well, in that, they would see that it's a safe place and want to be a contributing member.
 
My way of doing it is getting a team of moderators and administrators whom I selected specifically because they understand my direction for building community. I trust my team to maintain perfect operation by addressing all problems which may occur in my absence.

Well, it's the size of yourself forum and the kind of daily activities you're getting that's going to determine if you'd be needing more staffs in your moderator's team and also more than one co-admin. I've seen a forum with less activity but have plenty staffs. I don't understand what their plan is all about.
 
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