Ok. So. I think I have a problem.

I run an Australian-based fan forum for the Tv show Supernatural, and thus, after a while, we decided we wanted an RPG. It was going great as an extra area on the board, until we got a few too many characters, and it needed to be made into a bigger space. I jumped at the idea, because I love making boards and stuff. I love it. And I already had my trusty staff. So we moved the RPG board to its own little linky. We carried over topics - plots, rules, everything except the threads - and then we started with the threads...

The staff were doing their threads as an example, and it was going great. We'd even started to continue the threads. Then one girl... I don't know how, but she did it differently. I know her kinda well, only over the net, however, and I was able to talk about it with her. I told her, you know, we did ours, you saw them. They were examples. The way you did it was not the way it was to be done, so in future, please don't do it like that, and just follow our suggestions.

She seemed fine with that. She said she was sorry, and all was right with the world. She did the threads the right way, and we were all very happy. THEN. Uh oh time. She did it again, but worse. She copied EVERYONE's posts over into her own post, adding random images to them to signify who they were from, and when confronted by a staff member about it, and asked not to do that, she cracked it. I was in contact with my mod via txt message, as I was at work, and I was shocked. I saw what happened when I got home. She was asked to wait for me to come home to discuss it, because, honestly, my mod was getting fed up with her excuses and 'she never told me!''s so she said to wait. With that, said member said 'Fine, if that's how you feel, I'll just leave.' using the mod's name.

Thus, mod feels guilty for making her leave, when really the member is in the wrong.

Now, its blown up once more. I emailed her when I got home, telling her that she was indeed in the wrong, but staying nice about it, because as frustrated as I was about it, and as much as I wanted to just say 'FINE GET OUT' because she's so unreasonable... I was nice, and I said if she wanted to leave it was her decision, but if not, I was always there.

She took that as a threat, said I was unreasonable and hard to talk to, and claimed that I was upset because she carried over my character's posts. She made a point of mentioning a relationship my character was in and how much she supported it, as if to get back in my good books.

Its been a week, maybe, since my last PM from her, about how she was gonna leave. She withdrew all of her applications and stuff, and basically disappeared off the face of the Earth, as well as blocking my mod's msn. She says she has nothing against her, but she won't talk to her at all.

I'm so stuck now. Only myself and my mod are on the site now. She was friends with a good deal of them, and I was worried that maybe she had turned them off the site. Seriously. She acts like a nice lady, but she's very very temperamental and sensitive. I'm just not sure.

The site seems really empty, and I'm worried because as an Australian built site, I wanted it to just be Aussies, for as long as possible. we had 10 people, with some still to come over, and it was all going swimmingly. Now we have two, and its a ghost town.

What do I do??? I'm so worried. This was the best RPG I'd ever run. I'd actually managed to portray a canon almost as well as the script, apparently. I was getting compliments! :) Yet when I play them on any other site I die of awfulness. And and there was good dynamics, and and my members were all friends and had fun!
And and and and and it was pretty! :p

Bahhhh. Please help me, in any way you can. I'm so worried... and this sucks out loud, right? :(

ETA: I just found out that my old members are now on HER board, which she took over when its admin gave up. She has NO idea what she is doing, I might add, so she made my members mods and stuff. SHE'S POACHING! AHH! And they're my friends in RL!

Wow.. I'm really sorry to hear about all that. Personally, it just sounds like a child that can't get their way and has something of authority issues. Even when warned, they go right back and do it again. As for the whole 'turning against you' thing, that's a pity. I'd try talking to the other members and explain what all happened. There's not much you really can do if they won't listen. =\

Best of luck to you and I hope it really works out. If not, then maybe you could try something else or something? I doubt her forum will last long if she doesn't have a clue what she's doing; so, maybe they might migrate back to you?

Yeah, I hope so.

I hope to talk to the other members, but as of now, I'm going to try and get some more as well. I'm not shutting out the old ones, but I'm so sick of this one girl, I just want to get some more people to play with me and me mod. Its lonely. I can easily get some more people from the site, I was waiting for everyone to settle first... Wow that came out conceited. :S

Um... yeah she is like a child. Miss Mod and I have thought that on many an occasion. She's the oldest on site, but she can't take authority, and she doesn't take anything that this one particular mod says seriously.

gahhhh.

Weeeell, you've got people like that everywhere. I've had my share of bad apples myself and one batch even ruined X-men roleplay for me - thus I don't think I'll ever join another X-men site ever again. =\

OCs ftw anyway! >D

It's glad that you can find new people though. I'm not sure how hard it is to find Australian rpers but nonetheless I hope you gain them by the.. uh.. hundreds? ( Not sure if you really want that many. :sweat: )

haha, that number'd be cool. :p

It can be a bit hard, but I pulled the old ones from an Aussie site, so I'll just do it again. Start advertising meself on those sites again.

I wonder if any of the old ones even realise what is going on, however..?

Wow, this sounds familiar. I'm going through something very similar. I didn't lose all of my players, but I lost a lot.

Most of the advice I've been given, or seen given to other people, is to advertise and keep playing. If she's really that awful, her game won't last, and people will come back to you.

Good luck!

I intend to start some advertising now. :)

One thing though... she keeps PMing me. I don't want to cut her off completely, because she'll take that as like, a threat on her life. So she PMs me. She sent me one last night saying that she wanted to see the RPG through to the end, had always wanted to, but she wasn't getting stories she wanted. Any thread she participated in meant that it was someone ELSE's character development, etc.

I'm so lost with her now. I just don't know what to do. *sigh*