Yeah, honestly appealing to guests who expect constant showers of attention and handholding is never going to cause you anything but stress.
There's an expectation to be accommodating, sure, but there are also unreasonable requests for accommodation. I'm not going to approve your application line by line as you write it over the course of like 5 hours straight because someone is too impatient to wait or is so self-conscious they refuse to post up a finished application. It is also not my job to resolve someone's boredom every five seconds.
It is also not my job to spend hours going over the Required Docs when the answers are clearly marked. If someone comes in with 'Hey, I have a question about <literally anything in the doc>' I'm going to respond and likely point to where the exact verbiage is. If someone asks about the combat system and I link the combat system... and they ask a bunch of questions that are bolded and on the top of the combat system doc I'm just going to link the combat system again and say it's in there. It's not my job to enable someone disrespecting my time and the time of my members.
At the end of the day RPers are petty as hell, myself included for the reasons they choose not to go on sites. The skin's too bright, the skin's too dark. Too many races, not enough races. This site won't let me play a robot with 5 arms wtf control freak I leave. This site's admin has a bunch of FCs that give me horror flashbacks from previous bad RP experiences so I can't do it. I recognize Bob from this site and Bob was a jerk so I leave to avoid confrontation. Bored of genre. Not interested in genre. Skin too wide. Everyone has ugly posting templates. Everyone has too pretty posting templates. Text size too small. Text size too big. Application too short. Application too long. My power is on the banned power list. My power is taken already. The canon I wanted is taken already. Staff groups are the wrong color. Discord too dead. Discord too active.
If you sit there and beat yourself up because of all the reasons above, some of which border on nonsensical but are reasons why most of us have held off on sites in the past you're going to go insane as a staffer. People don't join and fuck off for no reason at all sometimes. People just join discords, never post, never interact, and forget about it all the time. Some people will shitpost semi-actively for weeks or months but never join your RP because they wanted a social group rather than an RP. RPers are weird as hell, and trying to blame yourself somehow for all the weirdness that happens will only lead to frustration.
Mistakes were made lol
