Is there an ideal staff to member ratio?

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February 10, 2014, 9:05 am

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Is there an ideal staff to member ratio?

So let's say you have 100 active members posting daily. How many moderators or admins would you need to police the forum for spam links, trolling, bad behavior, etc?

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LizAnne

You would need at least ten active moderators for so many actively posting members, considering most people will make two or three new posts daily. That's a lot of threads to monitor, so the more moderators needed on the forum to watch things.

11 years ago

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Charlotte

With a good spam plug in, you shouldn't need many moderators as you won't get lots of spammers signing up. So, maybe just a few moderators per hundred members.

11 years ago

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kgord

I think it really depends on the time of day, days and times that you have more members posting you would want to have more moderators. These are the reasons that you might want to accurately guage your traffic before hiring moderators so you know how many you really need.

7 years ago

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Kakashi2020

In my opinion 1 moderator for every 100-200 active members is good enough. Because only a portion of those would have issues for the moderator to respond to. Let's say 5-10 percent which a single moderator can easily handle.

6 years ago

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Is there an ideal staff to member ratio?

Is there an ideal staff to member ratio?

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