Leaving your community in the hands of another?

Most forum owners tend to be fully invested in running their community. They would of course do so with staff members when they can't do everything alone because it's rare seeing one set up a community but only to leave everything in hands of another person who might be a friend or an acquaintance.

On what condition would you ever consider leaving your forum in the hands of another person to be completely in charge of everything?

It would have to be someone I trust.

I might even create a special user group and exclude options such as deleting the forums and such because there would really be no need for that permission.

Shawn Gossman said:

It would have to be someone I trust.

I might even create a special user group and exclude options such as deleting the forums and such because there would really be no need for that permission.

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I don't trust people easily because of the experiences I've had with so many individuals whom I thought I knew better. For me to trust someone to the extent of entrusting my community to him/her, the person must have proved beyond every reasonable doubt they can't betray me.