Mods, admins, monitoring and... RESPECT

Lately, there have been so many fight on Monsterboard... *sigh* anyway, I just wanted to express my thoughts.

It doesn't seem that the issue is connected with the lack of admins. Not at all. It's more connected with the idea that ''maybe it'll calm down on its own, we don't want to get flamed for deleting someone'''. But it's exactly what has brought the situation to where it is now.

There are other forums out there that have the exact amount of mods and admins, and still they funtion waaay better even they are bigger than Monsterboard. Jellyneo forums for example. They have like... three or four admins. And that's it. But there is more peace there with about 10 new users coming in every day. Why? Because people there know that if they say something flaming or insulting or if they break the rules, they'll be kicked to hell out of the forum before they can say ''bye-bye''.

Or let's take, for example, Neopets.com. It's a huge site with HUNDREDS of new users coming in every minute and THOUSANDS of users being on forum every hour, posting and doing whatever they do the best. And still there are no fight there, because the users know that it's enough for them to say one wrong word on the forum, and they'll get a warning or get banned and frozen, in most cases, permanently. Admins, mods and hundreds of monitorers, picked by the admins, follow the situation there.

It's not about the amount of mods and admins. The three admins and one mod on Monsterboard are just fine. What they need, is to make the users respect them. Make the users understand that they can't just come up on the board, doing whatever they want. Make them understand that it doesn't matter if you're a noob or a senior user - if you do something to break the rules, to flame or to start an argument ( and there are a few older members who start arguments quite often in Babbling section and elsewhere ), then you'll get banned.

This ^ And no ''Ow, we'll wait till it's calm again'' or ''We can wait and see how it goes.'' On other forums, admins are respected and feared. On Monsterboard, however, the admins are leaving the impression they are afraid of doing anything because of flaming and hate mail.

Another thing - on official forums, hosted by the labels or other companies ( like Viacom, owners of neopets ), the admins usually get paid for what they are doing...