Re: Ask The Staff 'Anything'
The other forums come from two angles - one is because we, and others we know, enjoy the games each forum is about and want to talk about it, make new friends etc etc
The other is pretty much monetary - Steve and I rely on the websites as our source of income. It's our job (well, Steve does the work and I spend the credit
) and Steve has the whatever-you-call-it required to make each and every site do rather well in terms of monetizing them and getting them ranked at a decent level in the search engines.
A lot of extremely hard work and dedication goes into creating a successful forum - whilst you may not see Steve online all that much, I can personally guarantee that he spends an awful lot of time updating, upgrading and generally fixing this and that to make the sites even better. As an example, the
Devil May Cry forums recently had an overhaul to reflect the release of the new game - Steve spent many many hours sorting that out, fixing bugs and doing the artwork.
Dark Drakan is the one who makes our boards live, essentially, in that he posts like a lunatic even when there is nothing really to say :lol: - he is always keeping the various sites updated with news, new threads and he sorts out the spammers, members with questions or technical difficulties both with the site and offsite. He deals with the difficult people on our behalf and works damn hard both on the sites and also holding down a full time job and full time drinking - it's a lot
If we did not have the calibre of staff we have across all our boards, we'd be sunk, quite frankly. The same sentiment applies to those members who are dedicated to these boards and keep them going even during the dry times when there is nothing new to discuss and no one online to discuss it with.
/tangent styleeee
