When Do You Decide that enough's enough?

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  1. Ashley

    Ashley Regular Member

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    Okay, say you're running your forum, everything's going smoothly, but then real life things, health problems, etc. take over. When do you decide it's time to call it quits?

    Just today I have officially decided to call it quits with Chatting Time. I enjoyed running the forum, but I have too many health issues, more than last year, more appointments coming up than I can count, and I just think it's best that we close the doors for good rather than hiring more staff or trying to sell it. Also, the decision to close also came up as I was looking for ideas for the forum and I was totally drawing a blank. Not only that, but it seems like during the time the forum has been opened, I have spent more time lurking than actually posting.

    I mean it when I say that I am never going to try to run a forum again. I just have too much going on in my life, my health is practically going downhill, and I just want to spend time on other forums rather than not making time for myself to promote my own.

    When do you decide to call it quits?
     
  2. master412160

    master412160 Regular Member

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    Man that really sucks you made that hard and big choice today Ashley. I find it sad but if your life gets in problems because of Chatting Time then you made the right choice.

    I would quit any forum if I would die alot sooner if I would continue speant my energy in it. If my health is affected by the way I life I would stop with doing that way of living. And change my whole life style. In a way of saying of course.
     
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    Health is first, you want to stay healthy so you can run websites right lol? So I wish you the best Ashley :)
     
  4. SpacewardAsh

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    Health is first, but it shouldn't mean that you should close down and call it quits. Chatting Time DOES have other staff (me). All it needs is a few more moderators and one more co-admin to help and everything will be fine for when/if you are ready to return. There is no harm in an inactive founder/administrator/staff due to personal reasons, and the community should respect that.

    Now...back to the discussion, the last time I called it quits was my forum was when my forum got hacked, and the relaunch sadly failed.

    Another forum I worked at called it quits because there was a lot of backstabbing happening, and we all refused to be a part of such a place which resulted in it closing.

    Then the most recent one was called quits due to lack of time and there was no help available from anyone else.

    In short, I've called it quits when there has not been enough time to pursue the project, and there has been no one available to help out.
     
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    Thats true, I have to agree with this. Im sure CT can do fine while ashley is on leave... also since Ashley.S. is staff he should be part of the decision to close or keep it open.
     
  6. master412160

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    I think that is very well said.
     
  7. Ashley

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    Actually, I did create a new subforum the other night under the Announcements section, and thanks to Ash (as usual) I have agreed to keep CT open. Also, I was just thinking this morning that if I were to close the forum down, I'd only open another one two weeks later, so it's best that I stick with this one. Also, it's a good thing to keep it going as well, because what if I was simply bored and just wanted to come on and post? So I think the best thing for me would be to keep the board going for as long as possible. Thank God we hadn't started maintenence work yet!
     
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    I probably would have looked at restoring a backup if necessary ;)
     
  9. Joel

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    Well, i have school, work and everything else, but hey, if you want to go for your dream and ambition, which for me is having a successful forum, than of course there's risks and you have to take it.
     
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    Very true I agree.
     
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    Well, if personal problems take over my daily life - then I'd step down and ask my co-owner to take over until I can come back.

    Personally, I've yet to decide that enough is enough. I've had a lot of health problems over the years, along with major setbacks withiin the community, but I've yet to give up.
     
  12. Ashley

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    Actually, I'm glad Ash has been able to convince me to keep this forum going, as I've recently had a schedule change at work (not my choice, we've had some things come up) and now that leaves me more time for the forum, so I'm glad I didn't give up. So really, I have yet to say that enough's enough as well!
     
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