What will you do?

**seepia** · Apr 9, 2009, 06:48

What will you do if you are made the Admin of this forum for one day!

**McStompin** · Apr 9, 2009, 08:49

I would ban myself.

**a2K** · Apr 9, 2009, 08:53

I would make mess with the files

**php_daemon** · Apr 9, 2009, 09:39

Wouldn't touch any buttons and hope for a calm day.

**Jake Arkinstall** · Apr 9, 2009, 13:38

I wouldn't change a thing. This place is run extremely well as it is.

If I had to do something, I'd blitz the forums and delete as much fluff and spam as possible. I'd go through the sticky threads and remove useless posts, fluff etc. I'd probably round up a load of volunteers to go through old threads in certain forums and report everything fluff or spam.

Oh, and I'd probably make a few stickies on certain forums in hope of reducing repetitive threads about certain subjects, such as what IDE to use etc. Maybe add a couple of new forums for new technologies.

Thats it, really.

**GeeOne** · Apr 10, 2009, 02:16

I would give alert call to member who is going to be ban!

**molona** · Apr 10, 2009, 06:24

I think that Sarah and Shayne do a great job. I don't think that I can do it any better than they do.

**php_daemon** · Apr 10, 2009, 08:21

Originally Posted by molona

I think that Sarah and Shayne do a great job. I don't think that I can do it any better than they do.

**AlexDawson** · Apr 10, 2009, 08:27

I would change everyone's avatar to a picture of a bunny wabbit for easter!

**a2K** · Apr 10, 2009, 08:45

I would give the people who just signed up for the boards, the guru of the year awards

**rypher21** · Apr 12, 2009, 22:11

i will ban all the mods....hehehe

**Jake Arkinstall** · Apr 13, 2009, 04:25

Why do people always want to do bad things when they get the power to do so?

Why would you ban the mods? Ok, for a laugh... but realistically, they're wisely chosen and do a great job. I'm pretty sure a mod that DIDNT do a good job wouldn't be a mod for much longer.

The awards are voted by us, so it's a fair award. If the staff can vote (which I'm not sure on), their vote would count the same as a normal member.

As for the rabbit... I know I'd see the funny side! Though I do use avatars to identify the more active members rather than the usernames, so identifying authors of posts would be different.

We usually do have a large amount of people changing their avatars for occasions, though the single-religion ( such as easter in Christianity ) holidays aren't popular avatar-changing events because of the multi-cultural forum this is.

**Evercry** · Apr 13, 2009, 04:28

I would give everyone some warm milk and cookies.

**Jake Arkinstall** · Apr 13, 2009, 04:39

What an introduction!

Welcome to the forums, EverCry.

Oh, and chocolate chip please

**McStompin** · Apr 13, 2009, 05:22

Originally Posted by arkinstall

Why do people always want to do bad things when they get the power to do so? ...

I think the question was meant to be fun. This isn't a job interview!

**c55** · Apr 13, 2009, 05:37

sell it for some cash and built a new one

**Jake Arkinstall** · Apr 13, 2009, 05:40

Some cash?

Selling sitepoint would bring in alot more than 'some cash'

Though I don't think the admin(s) actually own sitepoint forums. I believe sitepoint inc. does.

**micoph** · Apr 13, 2009, 12:48

Originally Posted by seepia

What will you do if you are made the Admin of this forum for one day!

Umm... maybe I'll give a special award. Let say, member of the day or poster of the day. Don't get me wrong. I don't want this place to be a spammer's den. I mean, I'll consider the quality of the post rather than the number of posts a poster made that day.

**WickedGoddess** · Apr 13, 2009, 17:42

Hmmm...I'll make a rule that I could be a mod forever.

**a2K** · Apr 14, 2009, 12:40

I think I would edit the database to edit my posts to 30,000 posts

All with a loop, just to make it harder on the database

**webinnosales** · Apr 14, 2009, 14:00

disable the forum rules for one day!!!!!

**customtollfree** · Apr 15, 2009, 13:26

I would close the forum. lol!

**jabo** · Apr 15, 2009, 19:52

I would enjoy it and do my best to do the job... admins and staff of the site are doing pretty well in maintaining the site, if I were admin, I would pretty much do the same...