You're the Community Admin. Do you participate or do you lead?

[JoelR]

Some community owners are more laid back and will participate here and there, but otherwise let the community talk about what it wants.  Other community owners are more proactive in directing the types of discussions.  What are you?  

[Kane]

I am a community player, I have multiple roles to play. I not only work on the back end but also on the front end. I create topics, reply to topics, post on users profile to thank them, I even wish them on their birthdays if the have shared their birthday in heir profile. By engaging in the activities, I want to make my users feel comfortable

[Nomad]

When I created my first forum, I created important pages such as guidelines, TOS etc. from Admin account. I participated in the community discussion through another account and kept the admin account idle. However, on my second forum, I not only created topics as an Admin but also participated in the discussion

[Shortie]

I would say that I am the kind of admin who participates as much as I can whilst working on other things needed within my community. 

In the very beginning, it can be difficult to get fresh, new content onto your forum and I believe that the admin should participate to help create that content which in turn will help the forum in the future. 

Some who lead a community are different and prefer to be more laid back and I also believe that is fine, there is no right or wrong. 

[Kane]

On 4/27/2024 at 3:36 AM, Shortie said:

I would say that I am the kind of admin who participates as much as I can whilst working on other things needed within my community. 

In the very beginning, it can be difficult to get fresh, new content onto your forum and I believe that the admin should participate to help create that content which in turn will help the forum in the future. 

Some who lead a community are different and prefer to be more laid back and I also believe that is fine, there is no right or wrong. 

Admin participation is very important, if you have a small community, that's even more important. By the way do you participate as an "admin" or do you create different account to participate in the discussion?