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Worst forum experience?

The worst forum experience happened to me between late 2006 and April 2007, where it happened on the GMS (Game Maker Showcase). It started off with some of the staff being complete dickwads who abused their position and some picked on certain members. One that came to mind was a person named {DS} who was a cool guy at first until became a very obnoxious person when as a Moderator and me and few other people wanted him banned for his actions and the head admin, Snabela, didn't say anything about his doings. I had thoughts in leaving that forum because of this but I stayed on anyway.

Months later in April 2007, the forum then descended into chaos where another dickwad, named Ninto, had betrayed Snabela and demanded him to take down the forum's and site's design that he had created. Many spam threads were made afterwards and then the entire site collapsed.
 
Dealing with the owners and moderators who treat their silly little tiny forums as their personal sandboxes... :)
 
wirelessguru1 said:
Dealing with the owners and moderators who treat their silly little tiny forums as their personal sandboxes... :)

How would a person treat their forum like a sandbox?
 
Nebulous said:
How would a person treat their forum like a sandbox?
By building sandcastles and little canals and having earthquakes and floods destroy everything once in a while :D
 
Over the past few weeks on another site, I have been a witness to a horrible in-forum fight, with nothing other than what can be described and full on bullying and harassment, people ganging up, and more horrible what I can only describe as members dancing on the grave the person being crushed.

It was like watching Survivor, where alliances were being formed, broken and reformed, and those who ended up at risk themselves for standing up for the loser of the battle, now sucking up to the alpha males and females for their own survival, while those who were disgusted with the behavior quietly left.

It always amazes me watching social behaviors, even on line. I guess that is why my two favorite shows are Survivor and The Apprentice because no matter how seasons these show go on for, they always end up demonstrating the same social behaviors over and over again.
 
The first forum I joined didn't take much of a liking to me, but that was probably my fault for being inept when it came to forum etiquette.
 
Whenever I was eleven, I wrote on a wrestling forum. I was inexperienced and didn't really know what I was doing half of the time. Anyway, I had my own little forum website, and I took it upon myself to advertise here and there. I had gotten banned on a lot of forums for it, but I eventually stopped, and settled for simply posting it in my signature. Eventually, a gentleman that will remain unnamed went ahead and joined my forum, and went ahead and made me a banner for my website, which had other-wise been bare. I appreciated it, but eventually came to the discovery that the man had actually been somebody I had tried to "merge" my forum with a long time ago. I banned him immediately, thinking that we had gotten into a fight before, and there had to have been an angle that he was playing. Probably shouldn't have, but I was stupid.

This all sounds very kiddy, and for awhile it was. I didn't see him for about a month until finally he revisited the site and sent me a "cease and desist" letter that told me that if I didn't delete his banner then he'd be "taking me to court". Once again, young and stupid, I actually believed him for a little while and obliged. He, and a couple of his friends spammed up my Yahoo! Instant Messenger with porn, but that was only the tip of the ice-berg for the shenanigans. He created a forum website made to look like an absolute carbon-copy of mine, spammed up my forum with his link, and whenever I asked him to delete the forum, he calmly told me that he'd make it sure that the forums aren't interconnected. I eventually closed down my forum and ran for the hills, but whenever I came back to the forum a year later, I found out that he was still spamming the forum like I was there. :p

Funny fact, I actually got a message from him a couple of months ago asking whether or not I am still running that "faggy wrestling forum". There has been other occurrences with him spamming me, but it's mostly behind me.

Basically, it was a matter of him taking advantage of my lack of experience with the internet, and I know that I'll never actually let somebody bother me over the internet again. It isn't worth it, and I'm not going to "hide my identity" either. I have a page on my website that tells people all of the forums that I post on, etc., because I'm not going to live in fear of anyone or anything. It isn't worth it.
 
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