Mar 11, 2020 5:54:04 GMT @iota said:

Mar 11, 2020 0:08:31 GMT Chibi Magician said:

Omg... this is more ironic than you know... So first off, the member I referred to was somebody who did nothing too bad off. Just one thing that irked me as a not cool. They did not enter the degree yours did, but enough to for me to give them the "Really?" stare.

HOWEVER, based on the information this could potentially be a former member. I will not confirm or deny for their sake, but this is a familiar attitude you mentioned. So I may know this problem child. XD I will say good luck in regards to that, nonetheless. Whether they are the same person or not, I understand those behaviours can be frustrating the handle. I am holding out in hope they change and improve themselves, but you can never know with people.

As for the immediately staff hostile, I have not had that yet. This being said the most awkward situation I had in regards to this was somebody who treated everyone, but myself and another admin like dirt. It reached the intensity in a mere week that my other admin told me they feared them because they displayed stalker-ish behaviours. x.x It... was not a fun situation. That was long ago and I pre-banned their IP on my current site for my one admin's safety and reassurance.

Yeah, at first it was the same for us. They didn't necessarily break any rules at first, they just... were very provoking. xD But after a few minutes, they probably broke every rule we had. They're not a member at KD, the situation really escalated after I suspended them for linking porn. Contacted Jcink and everything; Jcink called it a "forum raid" and their only solution (because they had no better tools than we did) was to lock the board indefinitely and manually approve accounts because the "raider" had a VPN with an impossibly large range with an almost seemingly indefinite amount of proxy IPs at their disposal with no relations to each other (so, wildcarding their IPs didn't work). We could just block every IP they come in with, but one never knows just how many IPs they have. We opted not to lock the board and wait it out because locking the board would hurt, and trolls almost always run out of steam and lose interest anyway. It was probably the second worse issue we've had. Worse in that it was the hardest one to "contain," but the individual wasn't the worst one we've had.

I've had - at two forums - at least one person who became very obsessed with me the way you're talking about. xD The first time, they mistook me as a staff member. The second time, I was an actual staffer. It was... flattering at first in both scenarios, but after a while it started to cause issues. So, I totally get what you and your teammate mean.

Hopefully things calm down for you and your team soon!

P.S. Foxxy, the best mod I've ever had basically acted as my brain secretary. As an admin, there's just so much going on what with posts, revising info, plans/projects/events, answering questions, going over apps/claims, blahblahblah, that I get really scatterbrained. I think I am a lot less productive now that I don't really have someone asking me/reminding me of things. It probably depends on the individual staff and/or team, but I find it very useful and and appreciate it; it sounds like your fellow staffer does too. :)

Okay, I am rolling out of this discussion. /Rambled too long and too much

I hope staff do not mind this, I just want to reference what @spiritfoxxy said and kinda give some suggestions in case this is the same person. I hope you do not mind, I am sure you can handle this, but I have an addiction to trying to help. >.>

The person we handled had multiple IP addresses, and as a disclaimer, my site is ProBoards. I am not sure how Jcink works. Anyways, I recommend sorting through their posts if you still have them. I went through all their posts and applications on my site and banned IPs linked to those posts to thoroughly ban them. As Foxxy said, if this is the same individual, they did have multiple e-mails, so I recommend banning each of their accounts individually if your goal is to thoroughly ban them.

If you really suspect this is the same person and/or it is getting out of hand/more extreme, you are welcomed to PM me here and I can provide my Discord if you need things like bannable e-mails and IPs; I will likely only provide if they are proven as the same person, since anybody I ban, I believe deserves a second chance should they enter another site. Since they have already broken your rules to that extent, I am willing to provide to help with lowering their ability on sneaking back on your site. Naturally, this is up to you, I just wanted to offer since I know my staff team and I were frustrated with the situation. Heck, I was placed as staff to member interaction while another admin of mine, Dremulf, played devil's advocate for an unbiased view of the situation. So as somebody who was deeply involved in similar problems, I can definitely sympathize.

anyways, I will stop on this topic now, I just hoped my little suggestion may help other members going through a similar situation.

i just made the executive decision to suspend all activity checks/requirements on my sites until further notice while everything's going nuts and i don't feel even remotely bad about it.

there's enough going on right now for people to be worrying about, and a lot of it is far greater priority than whether or not someone can manage to get a post out, so as much as it might suck for people who are waiting on claims to open up, i would rather make sure my members can stay safe and healthy than i would add just one more thing to stress them out on their already over-full plates.

I was cleaning up my site today so the boards are nice and tidied. Gosh, when the Thread Created By area says deleted because muse was lost for the first character, I have to resist every impulse not to accidentally archive it. >.> My brain goes "Ooooh, I see a DELETED, off to the- NO THAT IS AN ACTIVE PERSON! STOP CHIBI!" Sad part is, it gets me every time and the person is a long-time member. XD Please my mind, stop thinking you can archive that thread, you should know better by now.