Comments on: When disgruntled members attack http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2009/12/23/when-disgruntled-members-attack/ Angela Connor on Growing Successful Online Communities Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:04:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Michelle http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2009/12/23/when-disgruntled-members-attack/#comment-2804 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:03:03 +0000 http://blog.angelaconnor.com/?p=1713#comment-2804 Wow… I guess I should consider myself lucky I’ve only had one serious troll so far. I don’t know how you deal with all you have to deal with. You’re a lot stronger than I am, that’s for sure!

Michelle

]]> By: RACHEL http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2009/12/23/when-disgruntled-members-attack/#comment-2801 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:24:31 +0000 http://blog.angelaconnor.com/?p=1713#comment-2801 WHY did the user deem you responsible for blocking them, did they not deserve to be blocked

]]> By: Debi A http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2009/12/23/when-disgruntled-members-attack/#comment-2800 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:44:51 +0000 http://blog.angelaconnor.com/?p=1713#comment-2800 UGH – there are some mentally weak persons in the world. I pity them. Take heart and know that you do a great job and like my grandma says – “you can fix a lot of things…but you can’t fix crazy”

]]> By: Angela Connor http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2009/12/23/when-disgruntled-members-attack/#comment-2799 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:53:09 +0000 http://blog.angelaconnor.com/?p=1713#comment-2799 Hey Mark: That’s some kind of special right there. You just can’t begin to follow the logic at times.

]]> By: Angela Connor http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2009/12/23/when-disgruntled-members-attack/#comment-2798 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:51:48 +0000 http://blog.angelaconnor.com/?p=1713#comment-2798 Hey Mr. Woc: Good to see you here as always. You know that most times I am just venting. I know that this comes with the territory but I am also wondering if you get to a point where you’re pretty much done with it all. Just thinking out loud. I have tried one of your tactics as well, posting some of the emails people have sent and that was actually well-received. Thanks for your comment.

]]> By: Mr Woc http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2009/12/23/when-disgruntled-members-attack/#comment-2795 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:24:08 +0000 http://blog.angelaconnor.com/?p=1713#comment-2795 Hi there

I have the unfortunate experiance to have had this kind of abuse too, I had a questionable member who i banned after putting up with their crap for quite a while.

I too got a bunch of F words C words and my sexuality was questioned lol, i laugh about it now because i realise how small someone must be to post something like this (it was posted on my forums).

I certaintly wouldnt worry about it, after all they wouldnt say it to ur face would they? they are just cowards. its easy to post a load of abuse. You might in fact learn something from it sounds strange i know lol.

In fact the abuse taught us a lot on how to run our website, it made us consider the distance between us and our members and indeed we do not get a close to them anymore which is of course sad. We also dont expect any of the other members to back us and if they dont we stick to our guns!

Also the mistake I made was to leave the abuse on my forums in the thought this would make people realise what kind of rubbish we have to put up with running our site, this doesnt work either btw lol !

I reported the person who abused me to their isp and they got a warning but it didnt make any differnce they still came back, now we just ignore the abuse and even try to laugh about it and just keep banning the people.

Should we have to put up with this, of course not, but unfortunatly there are very few avenues to tackle people like this at the moment.

Hope my comments help you make some sense of it

Woc

]]> By: Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins http://blog.angelaconnor.com/2009/12/23/when-disgruntled-members-attack/#comment-2794 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:49:58 +0000 http://blog.angelaconnor.com/?p=1713#comment-2794 I’ve been there. Just this weekend, a fellow and his partner at his company (who while they aren’t a member of an online community I belong to, are both members of the local Dallas social media / tech scene) have threatened to sue me because I called him out on my personal blog over a crass joke he made at the expense of a recently deceased toddler and the child’s mother.

Yeah – he jokes about the dead, and supposedly I’m in an actionable position. Right.

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