Arrogant Staff

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Have you ever been on a forum where the staff act really arrogant and self-righteous all the time, they seem to know everything about everything & threaten you when you disagree or question what they say?



Does that turn you off of a forum? Make you want to be less active or not return?

If you had staff like this, what would you do?

 

[Jazzy]

I was a member of two forums where staffed acted this way. The first forum (medium sized), it got so bad that all the top posters left. The forum right now has only three or four members left that are posting. The second forum (very large) has also chased away top posting members. This second large forum is dying a very slow death. Only members left posting are staff.



In both cases, it was the absence of the admin. The staff on both forums were running the show. If they didn't like a member, they let them know by ignoring posts or issuing warnings that held no merit. If you tried to argue the warning, they simply issued you a ban.

I wouldn't give them the satisfaction of banning me, so I left and never returned to either forum.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I was once on a forum a few years back with a moderator that was soo sure of himself and hated anyone to prove him wrong. He started calling me names and whatnot. Then before any other staff came on, he edited our whole convo to make me look like the abusive one then locked the topic so I could not edit anything.

Needless to say I never went back there.

 

[DrLeftover]

It isn't so much the arrogance alone that is the kiss of death, it is the arrogance coupled with favoritism that is the forum killer.