As someone that does most of the staff work myself a lot of the time, I get it. Finding good and reliable staff is really hard to do. I do find though, that it's easier to do incentive based things, or hire staff out of current members that like doing certain things. If there are members that like reading everything that everyone posts for entertainment/lore purposes? Make them a board moderator. It's now their staff job to make sure that things in the rps are being kept true to the lore or whatever. Some other member loves reading apps? Bam. They now read the apps. Same with adverts, if you can find the holy grail that is someone that doesn't mind doing ads. It is hard to find good staff sometimes, but it really can just depend on what kind of people are around too.

sidenote: for me, i'm just a control freak and have the need to do everything myself and people have to pull teeth to get me to let staff do things.

Unless a site has an insane amount of workload, I don't think hiring additional staff is all that necessary. For new sites, the community is likely gonna start out small, so there wouldn't be too much modding to do.

I'd say focus on setting up the site skin, lore, mechanics, etc. first, then pitch the concept to a longtime RP friend asking them if they'd like to be a co-admin. That's what I did at least.

Seconding this advice! I have definitely experienced the issue of “too many cooks in the kitchen” with overstuffed staff in roleplay communities as well. Person A pitches an idea, Persons B, C and D all have input, suddenly the idea is bogged down in red tape until everyone is satisfied… months pass, until the idea wriggles its way into the universe, or the excitement dies and the idea dies with it.

I have also seen issues arise when a staff member whom has a shakier grasp of lore acts without oversight and suddenly plot holes start creeping into your wider site narrative. Always better to have few staff you trust than too many people with keys to the kingdom!

It helps I think to know who has what role. A staff who deals with day to day mod requests might look different than one who oversees events and engagement opportunities, for example. I like what AkiraTsunami has to say about that.

maaaaaaan. i need to stop being lazy and go do ads and affiliates T.T

i'm terrible at delegating. i'd rather do everything myself than ask people to do it and then they forget or don't have time (+ don't have the chance to tell me they don't have time) but i think that's leftover from my time running pokemon draft leagues... not rp. i just need to remember they are quite separate.

is it normal to get mix of a bunch of anxiety + adrenaline when accepting apps or am i just weird

fr fr i get excited for both new people and their apps and veteran members and their apps as well. but the anxiety of "what if i messed up something / missed something" is sooo hard to beat qwq

Ah, the great AC purge of 2022.

I write javascript scripts to automate claims and reserves because I'm too lazy to manually do them all.

The time it takes for me to write this scripts takes significantly longer than if I were to just manually to them. But it makes me feel smort

you're stronger than i could ever hope to be. i wrote three lines of script last night and it turned my brain to chicken soup

Aww thanks! <3 Ironically, I'm motivated by laziness a lot of time. I suffer now so I can relax later

wow... this can be done...? i need this to be done x.x