Any way the Wind Blows...
aliasMisha
pronounsHe/They
123written posts
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 Okay, SO! Full disclaimer, I have only been an admin since March of this year, but I have discovered several things that people do that irk the shit outta me. I dunno if these are petty, or common, and I might relist several (If not all... 8 pages worth). But here is my (And my Co-admins) list:
When someone PM or DMs me complaining about something being "unfair" in my rules. As an example: We currently do not allow the summoning of creatures from one's homeworld because the lore states that the setting is completely closed off from the rest of the known universe. If you have an item which holds your "summoning" like a PokΓ©ball, yes. If you need to summon Ifrit from Final Fantasy world, sorry. AS OF RIGHT NOW you can't. It's part of the lore, sorry. And though we have repeatedly said, in the Discord and in an Announcement... People will still contact me and complain it's not fair. Honey, life ain't fair get over it.
I think this is a pet peeve for any and everyone. Those members that derail the conversation every time they show up in the CBox or Discord, just to talk about THEIR CHARACTERS. The only time they talk, it's about themselves, their characters, or those characters that intimately interact with their character. I get it, I'm obsessed with Keith and I RP him on my forums. But I will happily talk about Jane's anime because I have watched it or Mark's Character because wow that idea is bloody brill or even happily listen to Susan gush about how much she loves Sora for KH... Like that's cool. But don't come into my house and make it all about you. Okay, there are 20 other people here.
On that note, those people who feel that because I'm a super-chill admin, they can come at me and try to tell ME what to do. I get it, you have been on 20 billion staff teams before. But I don't come to your house and tell you what you are doing right and wrong. This is my forum. I can make a rule where all NPCs are now purple if I want, and you cannot stop me. If you don't like something so much that you have to tell me what to do, you can leave. I'm in my 30's, I've lived long enough to know the difference between constructive criticisms and full stop bitching.
Member Theft. This is something that makes me pretty peeved. I know that staff from another canon panfandom forum has joined mine, came into our discord, never once RPed, and stole people from our member base. I watched it happen, and it was super shitty. My whole staff team was enraged by it.
Potential members that take 400 years to app. It's been two months, and you've changed the character your apping 6 times now. You either need to finish an app, or go. If things have come up, like family issues or life, lemme know and I won't be like RAWR. But if you're active every day, talking in the cbox of the discord and you're still taking forever to app, there is a problem.
Those members who think because you're friendly with them they will A: Be staff or B: Are staff. Mini-modding is annoying as hell, and when members answer questions from guests wrong, it can be annoying but like I get wanting to be helpful. I'm talking the members who act like staff when staff is right there. That think because they are friends with the head admin they have special privileges. No, you don't. I'm an Admin that is friendly to everyone. I treat everyone with respect and kindness, and if we become friends, awesome. Doesn't make you staff, honey.
Now don't get me wrong, I love my staff team to bits, but when I have to go behind them after accepting a character and sorting to fix things, I get peeved about it. I hired you guys to do this, please PLEASE stop forgetting.
Those people who don't read the rules, the lore or anything at all, and sign up with their character name wrong then either argue or say "oh my bad" then don't fix it. Like, you can tell the people who at least looked over the info provided. I spent hours and hours writing that for you to read, honey. Please read it.
When a guest feels it's kosher to pop into the CBox to whinge and complain that their characters are taken thus they cannot join. Sorry, Jane. It's first come, first serve. I understand being upset you can't RP your favourites, but move on. I don't wanna see you complaining you can't have Usagi from Sailor Moon because someone else has her. That's not cool.
Those members that nitpick the lore, the skin, the rules. Every time they DM me on Discord I am like preparing myself to grit my teeth and smile and be like "I'm Sorry". I might sound harsh but if you don't like it, leave. I would rather lose your list of characters than put up with you.
My forum has OOC accounts, and we use them to send PMs from staff, organisation and so on. It drives me nuts when my members refuse to make their OOC their parent account then complain they never got a PM we said we sent them.
When people never read PMs from Staff. Ever.
ANY FORM OF GUILT TRIPPING.
Having to remind people a billion times to check into the activity check, having to vote for nominations, having to do anything. I feel like I'm holding their hands and that's not my job. If your character gets dropped because you keep ignoring me, that's your fault.
The people who think because they have the character account that means it's reserved. Nope. We have a reserve list for a reason. If someone wants Sakura and you're just sitting on her account with no reserve, if someone tells me that they want Sakura, guess who's getting her. Not you because you don't gotta reserve.
Oops this got long. I love love love being an Admin 95% of the time. I sound like I'm bitching I'm sorry |
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