Passing on Admin Status

[Re Harakhti]

According to Proboards, I CANNOT pass on my admin account status, I can only relinquish the account to someone else by deleting everything on it.

There are only really two options I have for stepping down as Admin.
Either I can remove myself from the site manually, including all my posts, and turn the Admin account into a blank account, so that Tele can move in to it.

OR I can duplicate the forums layout/images and people can rejoin a new forum, and T.W can begin again from new.

I have no problems removing myself from the site. If people are happy with that, it will be as though I never was.
However I'm also happy to set up the new forum under Tele's name, but it's getting people to rejoin that might be the issue.
There are lots of inactive accounts on this forum.

Please let me know what you think.

[Deleted]

In light of the circumstances, perhaps a new, fresh start would brighten things up and let the new admin have their own place (even though it's still TW)

~Fibreya

In all honesty I don't mind. Whatever other people think is best. It'd be sad to see you gone completely, Re.

~Capsha

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Sept 24, 2012 14:39:09 GMT Re Harakhti said:

According to Proboards, I CANNOT pass on my admin account status, I can only relinquish the account to someone else by deleting everything on it.

There are only really two options I have for stepping down as Admin.
Either I can remove myself from the site manually, including all my posts, and turn the Admin account into a blank account, so that Tele can move in to it.

OR I can duplicate the forums layout/images and people can rejoin a new forum, and T.W can begin again from new.

I have no problems removing myself from the site. If people are happy with that, it will be as though I never was.
However I'm also happy to set up the new forum under Tele's name, but it's getting people to rejoin that might be the issue.
There are lots of inactive accounts on this forum.

Please let me know what you think.

Hmm, I know there can be notable issues with any/either of those options, but if they ultimately end up being the only options left then I suppose I would prefer to see this board made into an archive and a similar board created for people to join/'rejoin' and have new/active discussions, to which the archive board could have something to point toward the new board.

The Proboards support forums, at least what I managed to just find via searching and the FAQ, didn't state clearly for me what exactly would happen to the original admin's/owner's account and posts when officially transferred to another person, other than it said that the original owner wouldn't have access to their account anymore and would have to make a separate account if they wanted to make new posts on their board. I don't know if that means that, in TW's case, Tele's account would still be totally separate from Re's (I'd imagine there'd need to be some kind of separation though to allow for a designation of Tele's and Re's posts--prior to the transfer--as being Tele and Re's specifically), but that Tele would still have the capability to enter or alter Re's account and posts? Their support forum, at the least, did mention that an official transfer would change Re/Re's account and info as being the actual owner of the site to Tele's account and info.

I'm also curious about something their support forum mentioned (here) about V5 of Proboards being an update to be released later this year that would allow additional admins to be granted full privileges (whereas right now, I think they aren't capable of deleting the forums and can't make changes to details and capabilities of the member groups??). I wonder if maybe that update could offer us another option than the ones we seem to have right now, even though we'd have to wait possibly a few months before it could take place.

[Doppel]

I think an entirely new forum could be good, if all the helpful posts of the forum are transferred. Preferably away from Proboards, if they are that restrictive.

Another option is to make Telegdrian as Administrator, Re Harakhti remaining as administrator, but inactive. Technically, Re is still the admin, but Tele is running everything.

I'm sorry to see you go, Heru. Hope you come back.

[Telegdrian]

@re,

I wouldn't want you to delete all your old messages, as there is a lot of contribution there. Creating a new board would not be a great idea, as a lot of users would be lost. You can just change the password on the account and let me know what it is, I promise not to post with that account, just use it for admin purposes. You could then create a new account for creating new posts just as a user.

[House of Chimeras]

I say no to new forum. There is a lot of information and resources on this current forum and it would be a huge shame to loose it all.

- Spiridon

[Deleted]

I agree, I'd hate to see all the old information lost. You've made such a huge contribution, and I, too, would hate to see it disappear.

(I see Tele is listed as an admin...has this been sorted out? Sorry I'm so late to the party!)

[Re Harakhti]

Aurora,

Tele is an admin, but unfortunately I can't give him complete control (proboards haven't given me that feature yet.)

Tele,

I was thinking that, if we did create a duplicate site, the admin account would be clean to just use as an admin account, for you and I to peruse at leisure. I was hoping to step down by changing my status to 'ordinary member', and just continue to be the designer of the forum, but I don't think that could happen.
I trust you entirely, if you think it would be best to have my password to access my Admin features, I can (and will) give you it, until proboards release the 'full rights to other admins' feature suggested by Sonne, and I can make you the overlord of all things T.W.

Maybe that's the absolute best way to deal with this.
I will have a think today and get back to you.
I don't know what will happen if I change my profile 'group' to something other than admin.

[Doppel]

Removed from Announcements as the forum handover was completed a long time ago (5-6 months)