Staffing Weirdest Complaints You've Recieved

[Uaithne 543]

I was once credited for destroying an entire site because I had "too many characters."

 

The members got very angry and complained to the admin because activity was slowing and I had so many characters, so it must be my fault.  We were only allowed one thread per character at a time, which made sense for the site.  But this meant that if other people weren't posting, I had nothing to do, so I'd make a new character and post somewhere else with someone else.  Then when people posted again, I'd immediately post with my characters.  The problem was that the other people weren't being active, so I couldn't post.  So somehow they came to the conclusion that it was my fault.

 

(I was also later credited for hacking the site into oblivion or something.  I'm pretty sure it was the admin who did it and then blamed it on me.  Very odd experience.)

[Anonymous 234]

A member sent in an official complaint to staff about being stranded at the airport. It was not a joke.

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[Richard Castle 7]

I had someone complain to me on another site I used to run that the staff were cliquey. Much like Sin City, we had JUST opened to the public and our only "members" were either staff or people that had followed us from our other sites. We can't force people to post when a, we advertise ourselves as not being a very strict site and b, we don't exactly post everyday ourselves. I get that it's intimidating, y'know, but that's no reason to not hang around and see for yourself that the last thing we are is cliquey. We want people to join - we want to thrive - and if people don't join, honestly, it's not a huge loss for us. We've got our small, dedicated member base and to anyone that doesn't join because they wrongly perceive us to be cliquey/don't understand what's going on, that's their loss. I want to say I had a mic drop after this post but honestly, that'd be a lie. xD

Edited December 7, 2017 by Richard Castle

[Icewolf 258]

Three come to mind - one was when I was typing on my old computer and I couldn't always get the + key to type properly because the board was sticky and didn't use it in a twitter post to indicate I hadn't finished (tbh, lots of people on twitter jump the gun when it comes to replying and they can't wait for folks to finish their post!) and still complained after I told them that my keyboard was acting up. (In hindsight, I wished I'd blocked them then and there, because later down the line they proved to be nothing but problematic.)

 

The second was being accused of ruining someones mood for a ship after my character's negative reaction to it, but it wasn't even the person who's character my character had the negative reaction to made the complaint . (In the end, that proved to be a way of the complainant trying to relieve herself of her guilt for ship stealing.)

 

The third was someone trying to stop me from participating in a group rp which I'd been invited to by the organizer.

 

All those people are thankfully gone, but they were complaints that were either unfair, no one's fault or the situation caused by themselves.

[xexes 108]

Someone impersonated me in chat and said I'd come back to the site

 

o_O

[Quell 249]

One time someone told us on our "you can have literally any single power you want" site that our power rule was too restrictive...

[CovertSphinx 710]

I had a member complain once that the Plot THEY were controlling wasn't moving quickly enough. I was like, "You're in charge of the NPCs for that thread, not me. I can throw in a couple of my characters to help spruce the event up but I'm not going to DM your plot for you."

[Rune 1,099]

Apparently, we're "too active." Nevermind that I'm sitting in 2 pages of alerts and one of our major rules is that real life comes first. We have no problem waiting for posts... 

 

But we're too active.

[Shades 676]

39 minutes ago, Rune said:

Apparently, we're "too active." Nevermind that I'm sitting in 2 pages of alerts and one of our major rules is that real life comes first. We have no problem waiting for posts... 

 

But we're too active.

That's... an interesting one. 

[Rune 1,099]

12 minutes ago, Shades said:

That's... an interesting one. 

That was my thought. They said they were really busy IRL and "shouldn't join a forum right now..." But were looking? I didn't understand it at all.

[SoulsRPG 15]

9 hours ago, Rune said:

That was my thought. They said they were really busy IRL and "shouldn't join a forum right now..." But were looking? I didn't understand it at all.

 

Maybe they wanted a forum that only posted once a week / once every two weeks or something?  Still strange, though.

[Shades 676]

Someone asked me to discipline another member because they had said goddammit on an off site conversation and that was offensive to them, so they tried to claim religious discrimination/bullying because the person didn't stop saying it when asked.

 

They weren't happy when I said one, it was off site and I wasn't going to intervene, and two, someone having the habit of saying something you dislike is not bullying.

[Deep Sea 326]

I watched a great new RPer go apeshit and quit a site because someone didn't mention their age and was 16 instead of 18.... on a site that's SFW and 13+. It was really fucking stupid.

[CovertSphinx 710]

I had a guest comment about our site being "dead", in the middle of an ongoing conversation between 5 members who were online and plotting together in the Cbox. 

[Rune 1,099]

10 hours ago, CovertSphinx said:

I had a guest comment about our site being "dead", in the middle of an ongoing conversation between 5 members who were online and plotting together in the Cbox. 

This is right up there with people asking if a site is active when people are chatting in the box... It's just stupidity at that point.