by Bronies Are Cool » 19 Dec 2014 09:32
Literally over-night, I became an admin on a music group and am discussing "big-boy" stuff with a bunch of people.
The idea for my "toast-beard" would be monthly instead of weekly (mostly because some admins complained about it being oo short doing it weekly even I know the actual toast beard did it weekly and worked fine.)
I was invited to the group via facebook and it is called "master producers" so at first I thought that it would be a bunch of producers who are good at producing and that I myself would be kind of one of the low ranks in the group.
Turns out that like any other group, there was a decent amount of just spam and loser comments that provided nothing for the group.
So I did my fair share of "thats not cool" here and there and also did my absolute best to provide a lot of feedback and be welcoming to newer-than-me people (even though I am still new myself) and the admins noticed that. Then I proposed the "toast beard" idea and suddenly im an admin.
it happened really fast actually.
so we are discussing things and I dislike the fact that I am the admin of a facebook page rather than a forum.
the facebook page is very limiting in many ways.
posting to the group about your WIP takes a lot of space on the page since we have multiple hundred people.
Then posting to the page, some people might be doing it for just plays on their SC or YT.
so we have to make rules and regulations about it.
Posting introductions also take a decent amount of space on the page since a lot of artists (including myself) are doing it. as far as I know, there isnt any complaints about it yet though.
Then there is the posts about helpful advice when producing music, or the post about questions when producing music. These posts which are informational or inquisitive are drowned by various other posts.
So, the reason I dislike the FB page I am an admin for is that its kind of cluttered a little.
I'd rather take the same page and move all its people onto a forum so it could be organized and then reserve the FB page for spotlights, and albums from the "Master Producers" community.
but anyway, I just felt like sharing my experience a little to see if any other admin type people would have something to say about this.
Like, do you like being an admin here? would you rather be admin for a FB group or an entire forum?
etc stuff like that.
I'd also like to know the downfalls of forums. I just posted about FB group downfalls but I'm not really completely aware of forum downfalls even though I've been on here for almost 2 years now.