Member Horror Stories

[Ozzy47]

Tell us your stories and experiences of bad/trouble members on your community or otherwise known as member horror stories.

Have you ever had bad members bring up bad actions and activities on your forum? Then tell us about it here.

What was your worst members, what did they do and how did you respond?

 

[Katrina]

One of my worst members really knew how to skirt the line of our rules. He knew exactly how far to push members or what he wrote so he would irritate everyone without it being a true rule violation. It actually pushed members away but because it didn't violate rules per se, I couldn't just ban him for not liking his method. Eventually he got mad at me for something else and left.

 

[Page]

Just bad trolls or those that got nothing better to do and so they do it anyway. One simple guy that was in me buy making many new accounts, VPN and different email addresses each time to able to bypass when I block each time, then posting images of nude and spamming over and over again. Even PMing me over again.

Each time I ban and remove and block over and over, like five times in fact over the two weeks till one day he gave up and moved elsewhere. Happen from the very very start, like five years ago now. No idea why this guy was after me but I can say that I have no idea who he was and also where he came from. He just turned up one day and went crazy.

It was learning crave also for me, but I dealt with it and fast as I can. Horror about what he or they would that person do next and you have no idea what's coming and have to keep eyes open and BANG. Only downsized that, I wakeup and logged into the site and seen over 200 spamming posts by that user after 4th or so bans, and had one staff members PM me about it. I was like, Wakeup to this crap 🙁 PAin in the butt when things happen when you are not online.

 

[Ozzy47]

One of my worst members really knew how to skirt the line of our rules. He knew exactly how far to push members or what he wrote so he would irritate everyone without it being a true rule violation. It actually pushed members away but because it didn't violate rules per se, I couldn't just ban him for not liking his method. Eventually he got mad at me for something else and left.

I’ve seen many of these types of members, they are toxic to sites.

 

[Page]

I’ve seen many of these types of members, they are toxic to sites.

Yeah, you have to play there game till they fail and you win 😛

 

[Ozzy47]

Only game to get lay with them types of members is to ignore them.

 

[MrDawn]

I went and modded on this guy's forum that I met a long time ago. One of the members on his forum that I gave a warning to for trolling didn't take it very well. This made things much much worse. I didn't know they were completely nuts.

So they got my IP address and somehow got my email address. They started sending me emails with threats and some really vulgar language. They found my family's Facebook pages. Made threats about harming them.

They came onto my old forum at least twice and started posting porn and talking vulgar to my members. So I quit that guys forum because he wouldn't let me ban the troll on "his forum" because he said it was too personal. I banned the troll on my forum. I deleted every other email they sent me and they eventually stopped.

 

[Deleted member 17779]

I had a guy who got mad at me because I wouldn't hire him to be a staff member on my forum.
- His grammar was atrocious (I don't expect everyone's to be perfect but this guy's was almost not readable).
- He didn't follow the rules himself.
- He'd rarely be online.