How Old Is The Typical vB Admin

[Darth Cow]

I'll be 18 in May. I'm the youngest of three co-admins on a our 1.7 million post forums, but I'm largely there for technical stuff as opposed to running the business. The others are 21 and 28.

[hypedave]

19 when I first starting admining vb forums, then branched off and bought my own licenses, 25 now

[Arkham]

19 when I first starting admining vb forums, then branched off and bought my own licenses, 25 now

Wow, that's a lot of licenses.

[Darth Cow]

19 when I first starting admining vb forums, then branched off and bought my own licenses, 25 now

Err... let's do a little quick math here. If you're 25 now, 21 is the youngest you could have been when vB was first released in April of 2000.

[ABLady]

I feel 26, but my true age is **!

Girls never like to admit their age.

[Bema Jinn]

Err... let's do a little quick math here. If you're 25 now, 21 is the youngest you could have been when vB was first released in April of 2000.

I think he meant 25 licenses.

[Floris]

I turned 27 on January 21st

They run ./configure in 1976 and make install finished in 1977 took about 9 months!

[synicide]

I turned 27 on January 21st

They run ./configure in 1976 and make install finished in 1977 took about 9 months!

Hahah, that is PRICELESS.
Floris wins the day!

[Floris]

here is a portion of my 1976 log file floris.log
\

netblock: ~> tar -zxf sperm.tgz
netblock: ~> ls
dirtymovie.avi sperm shell sperm.tgz boy girl
netblock: ~> cd sperm
netblock: ~/sperm> ./configure
checking for condom... no
checking for girl compiler default input... girl.in
checking whether the girl compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... yes
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... oH gawd
checking whether we are using the GNU girl compiler... yes
checking whether compiler accepts -pill... no
checking for girl option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the girl preprocessor... girl -nightout
checking for egrep... grep -her
checking for $$$... no
checking for library containing viagra... none required
checking for girl/types.h... yes
checking for girl/stat.h... yes
checking for typeblond.h... yes
checking for memory.h... no
checking for string.h... yes
checking for stathorny.h... yes
checking for mood.h... yes
checking for strip... strip
checking for gawd... screammyname
checking for basename... biatch
checking for uname... uname
checking system type... Linux
checking system release... 2.4.28-parent
checking for socket in -lsocket... yes
checking for connect in -lnsl... yes!!

[Darth Cow]

I think he meant 25 licenses.

Nope. Look at his profile. His birthdate is February 7th, 1979, which makes him 25.

[Faruk]

He probably started off with UBB or so, then switched to vB once vB came into existance...

Ditto. Present company occasionally excluded, minors do not tend to run successful, professional forums but rather ANOTHER anime/gaming/movies/TV/random craptastic chat forums that never get beyond 50 users--and 50,000 posts, many useless and chock-full-o-emoticons.

I don't judge professionalism by "the size of their board" or "the amount of income" a board brings.
I judge professionalism on presentation, attitude, and above all, quality of content.

And when it comes to that, those three apply not onto you, as far as I'm concerned, but I know several "minors" who run perfectly great websites in a very professional way, who just don't try to get as many people on there, but rather just make and run the site(s) for the fun of it. And they never go out of their way to slander other admins.

All I'm saying is, you don't have to have a "big money-making community board" to be professional. Someone who puts in more money than s?he gets out of it and just does it to provide a sort of 'online home' for a small yet cosy community can be just as professional, if not more so, than a huge board with thousands upon thousands of active members. Regardless of the topic of the board.


Oh, and I'm 21 btw

[kevinj]

I'm 18 at the moment, but will be 19 in may. Most of the people that help me out are 18/19 too.

[Lost Prophesy]

I am under 18, I am 17, so I guess I'm just another sitistic right? ... Great

- LP

[Attrox]

I too am under 18... 16, do be exact. Most of the members at my forum are around 14-25. I don't think we have very many "adults" posting.

[RapCheck]

21 in a week

It's weird cuz I first started my forum when I was 16 with UBB and the core group of members I started out with are still around a few younger, a few older and a lot my age so I've seen people grow up lol it's very strange. I cannot believe it's been so long! Damn, it feel like yesterday I was hacking a UBB tryin go figure out perl without reading anything (I dont read LOL)