This happened to me (past and present):

- when you're one of the main site admins but someone from the lower staff tier takes over and accuses you wrongly of doing stuff you never did...what?
- the fact that even your writing partner, who is also a staff member, gets shafted in a similar manner (he joined Staff later than I did, but we ended up absconding altogether from that place because it wasn't conducive anymore)
- activity checks. the BANE of anyone's existence. Like bruh, c'mon.
- when you miss one bracket of code and then half the board gets nuked by accident and you cannot remember where the hell that stupid missing piece of code was. absolute WORST
- overcontrolling and extremely assuming fellow staff members who falsely accuse other people of doing stuff that they'd never done (this happened to me recently. Blergh)

me: i happen to like humanity at this particular moment in time
sb: *asks a really stupid question that's covered at least 4 times across the site*
me: pull the trigger piglet

no but for real, by this point, i feel like anyone who's a good staffer would do okay in customer service or retail since imo it's not a one-to-one experience but it feels like it would be approximately the same drain on my soul. only, y'know, staffing is a volunteer thing where we're not getting paid.

......... i just suddenly had a want for a "customer service / retail or staffing" thread but then i remembered that i'm supposed to like humanity.

This resonates deeply with me. I was on a team of 5+ staff members, yet I was the only doing claims on our high maintenance site, such as: marketplace trades, crafting claims, level progression claims (which meant checking listed posts and threads, gathering word counts and converting them into points), while also actively rping with our members. If I wanted my own stuff processed, I either had to hop onto the Helper Mod profile we had where a few trusted members would help out on the forum (that's how you know it's bad), or motivate someone to do it for me.

When I eventually stepped down and went on hiatus for nearly a year, the other mods were forced to pick up some of the slack. Was quite chuffed (and a bit surprised) to see that I'd won "Best Mod" on site when I came back. I'd only kept at it so long because my members were sympathetic and appreciative.

i have a feeling i know exactly what site it is since i'm 99.9% sure i was on it too and had the exact same issue before it got "that bad". like if it is, then uh..... yeah uh now it's out there for a large part of why i'd left.

but i really hate when that situation happens since just. it's such a pain. i hate feeling like i'm the only one who does anything on the site or that the only reason i have anyone else staffing on the site is so that i can get my things processed. it's.... better now, in a sense, than it was a couple years ago for me, if only because i'm no longer running mod-heavy sites more or less single-handedly. but it's still so frustrating when i keep having to have talks with the staff about how it's been months since anyone else has actually processed an application, i'm feeling burned out trying to wade through them all (especially the bad ones), and that's not including updating claims, helping with events, doing advertisements, running activity checks, etc, etc. and it's even more frustrating to come back a week later and see that nothing's changed, the help has dropped off again.

just. let's just say that there's a reason why i automate as much as physically possible on a site and minimize the amount of modding that needs to be done. and that there's a reason why if i ever go back to pokemon, i'm seriously debating having an actual staff activity requirement to keep your modding position (or opening up rolling to general members).

everyone, please respect staff members on a site. especially if they're the ones you see all over the site all the time. they are probably tired physically and mentally. be gentle to them. do not guilt them if they have off days where they can't get to what you need to do. be patient with them when they're not emotionally available to process your things. they are running an entire world on their shoulders for free, and they are doing it all while putting up with all kinds of crap. please, for the love of all that is holy, be kind to them, they are trying their best, thank them for it or at least don't make their lives any more stressful than it already is.

I know this is prolly a bad thing to be complaining about, but on legit every site I adminned on, there would be a newbie rper that'd join that'd be absolutely useless. Like I don't mind new rpers and I honestly welcome them because rping is fun, but this person that'd join would just... Oh God. First, they'd come onto the site asking if the site is active (which is a bad sign already). Then they'd need help making a mini profile pic as well as icons for the app template as well. Which is fine. Except they'd just...

me: Do you have a Windows computer?
them: Yes.
me: Okay this will be easy then. *makes a picture step by step guide on how to crop pictures using MSPaint and resizing with an online program*
them: My computer doesn't have MSPaint.
me: Well there is another program called Gimp and--
them: My computer can't run that...
me: Well there's this online program called Pixlr and--
them: My computer can't do that. :/

Then after that fiasco where I'd be basically forced to make all of their pictures for them using an fc from the 90s, I'd show them how to delete the quote tags from the application template to post it. But somehow my simple message won't get across and they'd somehow destroy the whole template a million times over. Then after fixing the app coding for them, they'd make a character that's a godmodding, unrealistic, uncanonical, Mary Sue.

And it's just... so tiring. Every single site I've adminned on, someone like that joined and it's just??? IDK HOW? ARE THEY ALL THE SAME PERSON? WHO KNOWS OTL

But as for other pet peeves, I hate it when I'm staffing with other people and they always manage to do link backs or accept apps before me. Like I'll always be a minute too late and my fellow staffer will do the work and I'll feel so USELESS. LIKE LEAVE SOME WORK FOR ME TOO!!

Oh don't I know this all too well!!! Change one minor detail on my end, the person had been role-playing for not sure but nearly 6 years. They asked me to do everything and continually told me they had no idea what to do, even if they'd just done it a few days ago with no issues... like huh why ... just why.  

Also for some reason I always seem to slammed down as the one to find everyone's face claims.. just cos I got nice characters. 

When members do not check the face claim and just presume a face is open. This annoys me because not only is it problematic to me, but also the member who placed all that effort in, yet, ignored the claim. I mostly dislike this because checking the claim itself is not difficult and can even be done prior to registration.

YES!! I even had a member ask me.. to ask another member if they could change their face claim.. so they could use it. No you didn't read that wrong.  What ... the actual duck. *Quack* 

New one or old one I've probably said it before but centre of attention types, like the site rises and sets in their glory and would not survive without them. Oh and when they act shocked or surprised when you make a small change or a theme change and are like why didn't you ask.. 

When members try to wiggle around the rules with technicalities. 

No more kitsune characters. Member makes a kumiho.

No kirin. Member makes qilin. 

No werewolves. Makes a wolf 'skin changer'. 

It's like...

omg this hurt me physically lmao

This is such a pet peeve of mine, but to add onto this, I also hate when people make a character and claim an alternate age, especially on a site that doesn't allow face claim doubles. So, for example, if you're claiming... I don't know, child!Izaya Orihara I guess?, you're technically taking the face claim of Izaya away from someone else as a whole.

those moments when you're only in the first few sentences of an app and your only thought is this

i'm honestly not sure if this is a peeve at myself for being like this or a peeve at whoever is forcing me to read these apps with my eyeballs

ok tho this is too real

this also applies for me, writing said app tbh