Second administrator

Do you usually promote someone to be your partner and help you administrate your forum? I just promote people who I really trust (usually it's my brother), I must know the future administrator for at least a month before promoting him. But here is my warning: do not trust anyone on the internet, they can pretend to be your friend but then when they get promoted they do bad things to your forum.

I'm usually aware of that. I'm afraid of that too.

I don't like sharing administration. While i have an extra personal reason not to, there is only one person in my entire community who I'd trust for it but I know for a fact this person as much as he shares my love and ideas for the community simply has no time for it, he helped me lots as a global moderator and I am already grateful for that.

As a second admin you have to be sure he really cares for the site and has similar ideas than you, if not the board could be divided if you two argue. Not to mention the damage to the board itself doe the admin powers in use. I'd say a month is too little, you don't need another admin until you have developed lots of tasks to take or have no idea on administrative task, like the coding or graphic part of it. So I am sure you can spend three months or so before adding someone, that way you see if they will be active in the long term, share your ideas, is friendly, etc...

A forum is a lot of work, effort, commitment and a big bond, it can mean so much to the founder, so you cannot be too careful when adding someone. Myself I'd probably consider only proven moderators.

Very good reasons.

The only "big" site with one admin I know of is The Hazey all others rely on 2/3 admins. It comes down to managing your time and trust, if there is a big workload then you need to get a second pair of hands, if you can manage your time and do it yourself then there is no need for a second admin

I agree. My limit of admins (including me) is 3. And admins are usually important in the first stage of forums, as forums are smaller, spam attacks are aimed towards new forums, and admins are usually active, (sometimes) and being active makes our forum more appealing.

Sorry but I disagree it is only when a site has over 100k posts that a second admin is needed, a smaller site does not need or warrant a second admin as the jobs can be handled by one and especially a forumotion site as you don't need any knowledge on the behind scenes stuff so it reduces you work load by 50%.

Didn't know that. But I've never seen a forum with over 100,000 posts and only 1 admin.

That is what I'm saying it is only the big sites that should want or need to have a 2nd admin and Daisy you will soon see one

I have a few administrators at my site. 4 including me. A promotion forum needs a few more administrators even if you do have a big service staff team

I stand corrected The Hazey has got a second admin, I'm shocked as never thought it would happen.

TheHazey has a second admin!

I won't be promoting anyone to admin on my forum, because I would want to know what's going to be changed before it happens, so I may as well do it myself. And I would hate it if someone abused their power.

I recently promoted an admin, but it was someone I know REALLY well. I held off from doing it for a long while, but being in Grad School has eaten up a lot of my time, so I really needed the extra hand.