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Hey guys, what do you consider the most difficult task of managing a forum? Personally, I feel like there's nothing more difficult than trying to be the peacemaker at times. You come into contact with lots of different people with very different personalities, and some people will never get along, no matter what you do. You also have to have the people skills to know how to work with each individual person. Everyone is unique, and they all have different perspectives.

What do you think?
 
It used to be spam, but now that's a piece of cake even on free software. Anyway, my new project SWC simply confirms what you said.
 
I think the most difficult task when you are managing a forum is to continue improving and growing it. Sometimes if you run a forum in a overcrowded niche it might be hard to think of new and unique ideas to make your site outstanding to the others.
 
Marketing and developing. So your budget should be minimum 40% for development, 50% for marketing and 10% for profit. That's the most difficult task from personal experience and opinion.
 
Marketing and developing. So your budget should be minimum 40% for development, 50% for marketing and 10% for profit. That's the most difficult task from personal experience and opinion.

However, a lot of forums won't invest in expansion.
 
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I agree with some of the other responses but I'd also like to add training new staff to moderate in the same manner I do as being very difficult. I'm very lenient and some of my members come from another site where the rules smothered the users. It's hard to get out of that strict mindset and just let users try to work things out in the threads as much as possible as long as the obvious rules are not broken.
 
I think the hardest thing about managing a forum is kickstarting it at the start. The first few weeks and even months of starting a forum can be extremely difficult because you have to set everything up, manage everything and find time to promote it on other sites. Convincing people to join isn't easy either
 
Well, while managing a forum, I have come across several difficult tasks.

1. Debugging errors - it's hard because the website will be down, unless you know what's wrong with it. It could be a simple SQL query or Plugin or whatnot.
2. Peacemaker - it's hard to make everyone agree to some solution.
3. Newsletters - a forums needs users. So unless you try to send out newsletters regularly, you won't be able to have enough communication with all the users.
4. Posting good content - not sure which content would generate activity. It's always a mystery when it comes to content.

These are some of the roadblocks for me.
 
I believe the most challenging obstacle to come when managing a forum is growth. Your forum may be in a overcrowded niche category, so think - what makes my forum unique to others out there?

It’s all about standing out from the rest of the communities. Free & Paid Marketing is important too.
 
I'd have to agree, trying to build and grow a brand new community is particularly difficult no matter how good the design, how many add-ons you have installed, or even how much advertising you do. Content is absolutely king these days, if you don't have something on offer to keep your current members interested and coming back for more, you're fighting a losing battle.
 
I've found that there are a couple of issues with managing a forum. First, is content, I have always found it difficult to post relevant content, even if the current membership are logging in, yet not replying to things as quickly as can be expected. Second, is trying to get use out of a new feature that was implemented for use on the forum, yet no one shows interest at all. Spam and moderation management seems to usually be a less of an issue, if appropriate addons are installed to help combat spam and aid moderation.
 
A big problem definitely is getting members who post regularly. Well, the ideal is to get knowledgeable people on the topic that you aren't paying or getting from a post exchange. However, though, reality would make us do compromises. Anyway, it's especially important to get people knowledgeable on the topic or at the least, people who are interested and want to learn.
 
A big problem definitely is getting members who post regularly. Well, the ideal is to get knowledgeable people on the topic that you aren't paying or getting from a post exchange. However, though, reality would make us do compromises. Anyway, it's especially important to get people knowledgeable on the topic or at the least, people who are interested and want to learn.
Yeah, finding ways to get relevant content, is always annoying to do; especially if the memberbase that is already there, does not do anything to reply to that content. I have only found a few forums in my registration list, that has members that will actually reply to content, relevant to the subject at hand.
 
Yeah, finding ways to get relevant content, is always annoying to do; especially if the memberbase that is already there, does not do anything to reply to that content. I have only found a few forums in my registration list, that has members that will actually reply to content, relevant to the subject at hand.

It's good if a certain number really love the forum and it's a hangout place. You know kind of like a fun social gathering place. Anyway, regarding some subjects like politics or religion, it's easy to get people who love to talk without being paid to do so.
 
Personally I think the most difficult will be the filtering of low quality, spam and plagiarise posts and threads. You have to choice but to spend hours deleting this spams if you want your website to rank well.
 
Managing different people on a forum can be very difficult, it's expected that a forum owner must have excellent people management skills as that will enable him to manage the forum well.
In my case, managing people is a simple policy for me, ignoring those troublesome people and if they are still trying to make trouble, I will let them off.
 
Hey guys, what do you consider the most difficult task of managing a forum? Personally, I feel like there's nothing more difficult than trying to be the peacemaker at times. You come into contact with lots of different people with very different personalities, and some people will never get along, no matter what you do. You also have to have the people skills to know how to work with each individual person. Everyone is unique, and they all have different perspectives.

What do you think?
I think most difficult task to manage the phone is check the people who are posting plagiarized posts are spammin.
Because if you are doing this manually then there is a difficulty to check copy paste posts.
 
Yea I agree with you. Management and relating with other people is Avery valuable skill that is not easy to learn but can be learnt. Alot of people have their own mentality, biases, preferences and prejudices. So, trying to make all kinds of people from different cultures, philosophy and intelligence to follow the rules and guidelines of a forum can be very challenging
 
In my experience the most difficult task in the forum is the moderation of the members particularly the spammers and the trolls not to mention that there are forum members who feel so elite that they would criticize no end the posts of other members. I quit one forum last year because of that issue of one member who never get tired of criticizing the post. And I said I quit because that member happened to be a moderator.
 
Most difficult tasks will differ between people based on various reasons. What could be difficult for me might not feel the same way for you. I remember working at a courier and a logistics service company and it was difficult.
 
Well just like a lot of people have said, I think the major issue will be dealing with low or poor content and also irrelevant posts. I don't think moderating or mediating between two quarrelling members is a difficult task.
 
Well as for me trying to settling things between two people because when they both still in hot temple you cant get to the bottom of them issues and when you asked both of them to tell you what really happen,
 
I think there are many complex things in the administration of a forum. As you explain in the thread of dealing with totally different members from each other, keeping control of which members copy and paste other people's posts, which I have seen here by members who find it difficult to come up with their own ideas and words.
 
There are many difficult tasks that may be facing in terms of food running forum, to grow a forum maybe a challenge because is not easy to gather people to the forum, to control the people because there be a different people with different characters.
 
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Hey guys, what do you consider the most difficult task of managing a forum? Personally, I feel like there's nothing more difficult than trying to be the peacemaker at times. You come into contact with lots of different people with very different personalities, and some people will never get along, no matter what you do. You also have to have the people skills to know how to work with each individual person. Everyone is unique, and they all have different perspectives.

What do you think?
Although I have never experienced being the manager or admin of a forum (online or offline), I think their job is not a joke. If we members will look like we thought the admins were doing nothing, they were also like cctvs, they surveyed 24/7 to maintain the peace and order of a forum.
 
First of all, you need to acknowledge that a difficult task will require effort. It seems obvious, but the first resistance is the prospect of something that can’t be easily solved. But this early image says nothing about the ability to address the task. It just tells that you don’t have the solution at hand or that it may involve risks.
 
For me, it would be a fun task because you are talking with lots of people. And it is fun to talk. If you are really into it then there is no worry about managing it. You should worry about hackers that will attack your site. When you are booming that's the time they attack.
 
Hey guys, what do you consider the most difficult task of managing a forum? Personally, I feel like there's nothing more difficult than trying to be the peacemaker at times. You come into contact with lots of different people with very different personalities, and some people will never get along, no matter what you do. You also have to have the people skills to know how to work with each individual person. Everyone is unique, and they all have different perspectives.

What do you think?
one of the difficult thing on earth is to manage a being. Especially the ones that belong to the human race. Peace making and reconciliation is very important in the human society to help understand one another better and foster cooperation.
 
I think the most difficult task when you are managing a forum is to continue improving and growing it. Sometimes if you run a forum in a overcrowded niche it might be hard to think of new and unique ideas to make your site outstanding to the others.
 
I cherish peace of mind a lot, I am ready to let go of anything that would not allow me to have peace of mind. It is very true that different people come to online forum to meet new people. Argument is one of the common thing at the forum, when I discover that someone is about the go into arguement with me, I will bail peace of mind is to the top priority.
 
Hey guys, what do you consider the most difficult task of managing a forum? Personally, I feel like there's nothing more difficult than trying to be the peacemaker at times. You come into contact with lots of different people with very different personalities, and some people will never get along, no matter what you do. You also have to have the people skills to know how to work with each individual person. Everyone is unique, and they all have different perspectives.

What do you think?
Honestly, moderating a forum can be a very challenging task many times. You have to be a peacemaker and at the same time you have to make sure that everyone goes in line with the rules and regulations or let me say guidelines of the forum in order to maintain peace
 
You have heard the question and wondered if you should complete an easy task first or finish the most difficult task for the day and get the monkey off your back.

The right answer is neither completing the easiest task first nor the toughest one. The right balance is a mixture of both.
 
In my opinion, management is the biggest and most difficult task there is in operating or managing a forum. If the management can be very organized and creative then good tidings is what is expected as outcome.
 
One of the most difficult things to do in a forum is maintain law an order. This is one task that I know is difficult to maintain because of the different people that makes up the forum. Human beings are difficult to manage.
 
Hey guys, what do you consider the most difficult task of managing a forum? Personally, I feel like there's nothing more difficult than trying to be the peacemaker at times. You come into contact with lots of different people with very different personalities, and some people will never get along, no matter what you do. You also have to have the people skills to know how to work with each individual person. Everyone is unique, and they all have different perspectives.

What do you think?
Absolutely, thats why management is considered a tough job, you work with different peoples personalities, try to understand them, when there are issues btwn staff you try to resolve without taking sides. It's really not easy
 
Concerning most difficult taks when having or managing a forum. Well, I think the difficult is how to keep improving the forum by coming up with new ideas, innovations and good content so as to keep the forum fresh, some forum crashes out because there is nothing to keep driving it after some while, keeping peace in a forum can also be a difficulty especially to the administration
 
The most difficult task in managing a forum is moderating people's comment. Some people are ready to go against the rules of the forum and start posting what is not in correlation with the objective of the forum which is very bad
 
One of the most difficult things to do in a forum is maintain law an order. This is one task that I know is difficult to maintain because of the different people that makes up the forum. Human beings are difficult to manage.
You are right @Godleads1 , "law and order", as many people do not read or follow the forum instructions, rules or policies, therefore it is very easy for members to repeatedly break them, as they are not aware or just don't care.
 
Hey guys, what do you consider the most difficult task of managing a forum? Personally, I feel like there's nothing more difficult than trying to be the peacemaker at times. You come into contact with lots of different people with very different personalities, and some people will never get along, no matter what you do. You also have to have the people skills to know how to work with each individual person. Everyone is unique, and they all have different perspectives.

What do you think?
The most difficult task I face mostly, in most forums is giving me too much words to type before post is being accepted and credited, it stress me out.
Most difficult tasks will differ between people based on various reasons. What could be difficult for me might not feel the same way for you. I remember working at a courier and a logistics service company and it was difficult.
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If I am to own a forum one day which I doubt I would, I think the toughest challenge I would have to deal with is having quality content because with quality content, you are already on a path to success. Also, advertisement and convincing people to join you too.
 
If I am to own a forum one day which I doubt I would, I think the toughest challenge I would have to deal with is having quality content because with quality content, you are already on a path to success. Also, advertisement and convincing people to join you too.
Maybe someday you will have it, why not, the important thing is how you describe it, keep quality publications away from spam. I think it is one of the most difficult challenges in the forums, to keep them clean!
 
Hey guys, what do you consider the most difficult task of managing a forum? Personally, I feel like there's nothing more difficult than trying to be the peacemaker at times. You come into contact with lots of different people with very different personalities, and some people will never get along, no matter what you do. You also have to have the people skills to know how to work with each individual person. Everyone is unique, and they all have different perspectives.

What do you think?
Seriously, running and managing a forum is not an easy thing to do especially when the forum is set up to pay its users. There would be a lot lots of challenges.
 
Seriously, I will give kudos to the admin of this forum, it's not easy managing a forum of this capacity with different characters of people, it entails alot from the content,to spam and evn copy and paste, plagiarism is not exempted.
 
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Most difficult tasks will differ between people based on various reasons. What could be difficult for me might not feel the same way for you. I remember working at a courier and a logistics service company and it was difficult.
Well from my experience, nothing good comes easily no matter what you do or how you try, you will definitely break your sweat before you get it right and grow.
 
Being in partnership with someone that gives you selection headache. Always wanting to be superior in decision making, and never allowed you to contribute to decision making or selecting future plans for the business.
 
Being in partnership with someone that gives you selection headache. Always wanting to be superior in decision making, and never allowed you to contribute to decision making or selecting future plans for the business.
My friend had one of the most difficult experiences with his partner who almost killed the business and ran away with the business capital. It was tough.
 
The most difficult task in managing a forum is how to deal with the influx of members and their payments. Another difficult task is trying to regulate and monitor what members post on the forum in order to check whether they do not violate any forum rules and regulations.
 
Seriously, I will give kudos to the admin of this forum, it's not easy managing a forum of this capacity with different characters of people, it entails alot from the content,to spam and evn copy and paste, plagiarism is not exempted.
You are right, the more members there are on the forum, the more difficult it is for everyone to comply with the forum policies. There are always people who for the sake of winning, don't bother to read and respond correctly. It's easier to copy and paste, spam, plagiarism, etc.
 
The most difficult task for a forum for me would be the growth and expansion because as time goes on, members increase, funds have to be created for more withdraws, etc
 
Hey guys, what do you consider the most difficult task of managing a forum? Personally, I feel like there's nothing more difficult than trying to be the peacemaker at times. You come into contact with lots of different people with very different personalities, and some people will never get along, no matter what you do. You also have to have the people skills to know how to work with each individual person. Everyone is unique, and they all have different perspectives.

What do you think?
Dealing with such conflicts in a forum can be really difficult. Another thing that I find to be so hard is having to deal with spammers. Some people will always spam in forums no matter what the rules say. Dealing with such people can be so hectic.
 
The most difficult task for me is how to really know the real workers that are working for the vision of the company. Some workers only work for the money and they care less about the the progress of the company
 
The most difficult task in managing a forum is when you as a moderator have to delve in to settle one dispute or the other among members, you might easily be mistaken to be taking sides
 
There are different types of debates you can come across in a forum, some are relationship types and some are religious. I try as much as possible to avoid religious debates because some people can hold their rage during this debates.
 
The most difficult task in managing a forum is how to deal with the influx of members and their payments. Another difficult task is trying to regulate and monitor what members post on the forum in order to check whether they do not violate any forum rules and regulations.
Seriously, in a situation where there lots of people who are not ready to follow the rules and regulations of the community, it makes it difficult to run the forum in a smooth way.
 
Hey guys, what do you consider the most difficult task of managing a forum? Personally, I feel like there's nothing more difficult than trying to be the peacemaker at times. You come into contact with lots of different people with very different personalities, and some people will never get along, no matter what you do. You also have to have the people skills to know how to work with each individual person. Everyone is unique, and they all have different perspectives.

What do you think?
The most difficult task in managing a forum is settling a rift and quarrel between members and the second one is fishing out spams in the forum ,its kind of difficult on how to search and see spam messages.
 
The most difficult task in managing a forum is settling a rift and quarrel between members and the second one is fishing out spams in the forum ,its kind of difficult on how to search and see spam messages.
Personally, I don't really know if it's that much of a big issue to deal with because once both parties present their case, you can easily know who was wrong and deal with it.
 
I think most difficult task to managing a forum is the capital to build it up, but I haven't own a forum before but the most difficult to make it to be a standard.
 
The most difficult task is separating the post with irrelevant content from the post with relevant content ,some people still find it very difficult to do these
 
The most difficult task is separating the post with irrelevant content from the post with relevant content ,some people still find it very difficult to do these
Seriously, this is one of the most difficult task to do in running a forum. There would be thousands of comments that are just trash and there is no way to get all out.
 
Seriously, this is one of the most difficult task to do in running a forum. There would be thousands of comments that are just trash and there is no way to get all out.
Yeah that is why some admin makes use of WordPress plugin to prevent too many spam comments , so they have their reasons for doing so
 
Exactly, I have seen so many forums now that are making use of WordPress plugins, they are extremely popular tools that makes the life of a forum owner easier.
Creating forums using WordPress?? I don't know if its possible. But WordPress is very cheap when creating a website from their software. They have generic plugins, themes, addons etc. That will make the webmaster to spend less when acquiring those tools, or feature manually.
 
Creating forums using WordPress?? I don't know if its possible. But WordPress is very cheap when creating a website from their software. They have generic plugins, themes, addons etc. That will make the webmaster to spend less when acquiring those tools, or feature manually.
I believe that what matters most is what the forum owner can actually make use of in situations where they are needed to help their forum project grow with less stress.
 
Forums are very complex stuff and I think one of the early challenges people have starting up is that generating revenue to share for people in the site and maintaining quality.
 
Well, in reply to the question in your above post concerning what the most difficult task is in managing a forum, well I am of the opinion that the most difficult task is growing the forum and also sustaining it longterm as this is quite hard
 
Having and managing a forum is a very difficult task to be honest. You will face the challenge of paying people initially from your pocket and the stress of having to police people around.
 
Hey guys, what do you consider the most difficult task of managing a forum? Personally, I feel like there's nothing more difficult than trying to be the peacemaker at times. You come into contact with lots of different people with very different personalities, and some people will never get along, no matter what you do. You also have to have the people skills to know how to work with each individual person. Everyone is unique, and they all have different perspectives.

What do you think?
Different people comes and joins forums from different part of the world. Everybody may not be the same whom you meet, some may have short tampered mind, some may have language problem etc. But to deal with such people you need to be patient. Becatusr you have to adjust with everyone, being peacemaker is a virtue which necessary to tackle such people.
 
In my opinion, the most difficult task in managing and running a forum is building members who create quality contents. A forum needs a lot of members and these members have to create quality content. This is the most difficult thing
 
I think the most difficult task for a full-time administrative is moderation of posts and comments made by the members of the forum. Replying to complaint can also be a huge task for a forum owner which has lot of members.
 
My most difficult task wasnt in forum it was when I was working for someone and at that time was inexperienced, I was given the workplace to manage for a while
 
I think the most difficult task for a full-time administrative is moderation of posts and comments made by the members of the forum. Replying to complaint can also be a huge task for a forum owner which has lot of members.

Seriously, I'm not really comfortable with trying to settle dispute of people who are having misunderstanding online because in most cases, it's very challenging and the complain will never end from one end to another.
 
Most difficult tasks will differ between people based on various reasons. What could be difficult for me might not feel the same way for you. I remember working at a courier and a logistics service company and it was difficult.
Yeah definitely and I agree, what's difficult for one person could not necessarily be the same for another, creating quality content would be key and also trying to filter them too could prove difficult
 
Most difficult tasks will differ between people based on various reasons. What could be difficult for me might not feel the same way for you. I remember working at a courier and a logistics service company and it was difficult.
You're right, what some people find difficult is easy for other but something that would definitely give forum owners tough time is dealing with spam messages, you'll need to keep clamouring even taking some drastic actions you never thought possible to stand your ground
 
There are so many form of difficulties that are experienced in handling a business or a forum to me I sees the aspect of convincing someone to accept my products is the first thing because alot of people will come with different perspectives and different motives or intentions.
 
I think the most difficult task on how to manage forum is when a forum is unabble to pay the users again, thereby people will lost interest in it
 
Well for me I think the most difficult part would be coming up with new contents and managing the time also because it could be very very demanding.
 
I think the most difficult thing of managing a forum is never an easy thing to manage a forum, you must check on people who is posting to know.
 
Hey guys, what do you consider the most difficult task of managing a forum? Personally, I feel like there's nothing more difficult than trying to be the peacemaker at times. You come into contact with lots of different people with very different personalities, and some people will never get along, no matter what you do. You also have to have the people skills to know how to work with each individual person. Everyone is unique, and they all have different perspectives.

What do you think?
Yes.
Trying to make 'everybody' buy your perspective is most difficult.
Just as you said, we are all different, with different views, different personalities....it is very difficult trying to get everyone to buy-in to your idea.
 
The growing of the forum sites is the most difficult task when managing a forum sites , its easier to draw people to your site but to start having enough traffic seems difficult sometimes especially when the members are posting thrash.
 
It used to be spam, but now that's a piece of cake even on free software. Anyway, my new project SWC simply confirms what you said.
I completely agree with you that dealing with spam is the most difficult task of managing a forum because you might be operating a forum and you will see a whole number of traffic and you really know that half of that traffic are spam not actually human beings.
 
Having and managing a forum is a very difficult task to be honest. You will face the challenge of paying people initially from your pocket and the stress of having to police people around.
Yeah - it's never really easy to start up something like a website where you intend do pay your members who post on your website. It's actually why most websites fade off recently.
 
If you are an entrepreneur one of the most difficult task is to create a system for your business so as to ensure smooth operation when you don't have much cash on you.
 
As a former owner I think efficiently managing revenue is one of the headaches that you are going to encounter because you will not want to run the business at a loss.
 
Personally, I feel the most difficult task in managing a forum is, authenticity. The managers have to be authentic, they have to be unique in their style and they also have to stick to their payment terms and conditions.
 
There is no such s the most difficult task, the task that I find very difficult might be very easy to you, like wise the task you find difficult might be very esy to me. It all depends on your skills and knowledge.
 
The most challenging task, in my opinion, while administering a forum is to keep it improving and growing. If you run a forum in a crowded niche, it might be difficult to come up with new and original ideas to set your site apart from the competition.
 
It used to be spam, but now that's a piece of cake even on free software. Anyway, my new project SWC simply confirms what you said.

Yes, many forum owners have to deal with a lots of spam and fraudulent users who tend to make many accounts and try to cheat the system. Spamming can also be a big issue if you own a website or a blog where you allow commenting.
 
I think the most difficult task when you are managing a forum is to continue improving and growing it. Sometimes if you run a forum in a overcrowded niche it might be hard to think of new and unique ideas to make your site outstanding to the others.
I totally agree with you. But then, in cases of incurring new ideas, the forum manager should try to employ people that would bring up good an innovative ideas for the forum
 
Well I honk that will be to actually develop and grow a business because it is never easy,you have to be consistent and also dedicated to the work at all times and that's it
 
Well in terms of the most difficult aspect in a forum in parspective might be different,because one thing that might be of a challange might not neccesary for another,reason issues varies from individual.
 
I think the most difficult task when you are managing a forum is to continue improving and growing it. Sometimes if you run a forum in a overcrowded niche it might be hard to think of new and unique ideas to make your site outstanding to the others.
I share the same opinion with you. The difficult task is improving the and growing the forum. If the forum owner fails to improve and grow it's forum, it will eventually lose its relevance. Today, there are many forum already running and many more still idea waiting to be launched.
 
Well in terms of the most difficult aspect in a forum in parspective might be different,because one thing that might be of a challange might not neccesary for another,reason issues varies from individual.
There are many challenges working on a forum sites but depending on the particular forum , if you keep every rules and regulation , you won't get banned from their sites .
 
One of the most difficult task you're going to encounter is how to manage and clean plagiarism. There are some people who are never just going to stop copying no matter what.
 
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