Post by vivi on Jan 1, 2008 9:36:47 GMT -5
The most dislikable person I have ever met in my entire life: "Astriol"
I really need a place to rant now – or else I’d explode! O.o But I also want to ask for advice…
Okay, well, the reason for all my stress is a member in my forum, Astriol. I would like to start from the very beginning – it will probably be a bit long, but…I am really furious at the moment…
One day, a new member joined and her name was Astriol. She instantly applied for the position of a judge and I approved her (I didn’t know anything about her back then and believed that she was okay just like everybody else). After her approval as judge, she started to post more in the forum and I slowly started to realize that she is a person who likes to show off. In the c-box, she bragged several times about her abilities as a dancer, as a musician, as a writer - on the whole, she bragged about everything and it seems as if she really thinks that she is a genius (someone talented in everything). She also likes to hear other compliment her, sometimes she'd intentionally go around asking others what they think about her idea, even though she already posted it in a thread. Once, someone said "You're the smart one, so start the RP thread" and she was so happy that she replied "Thanks for calling me smart, YAY!"
I will mention a few more examples now: Member XY has opened a thread to show her photographs. Everyone replies with constructive and mostly positive feedback, everyone except for Astriol. What did she reply?
Oh My Gosh!! Every Single one of my pictures turnned out perfect!!!! I took a picture of these skull lokking things and when I developed the picture it glows. It's amazing once I get a chance I'll download the pics.
She didn’t refer to XY’s pictures, but started to praise herself in someone else’s thread (btw, she hasn't shown any of her works, which makes me doubt whether she really is so talented like she always pretends to be)! And this is spam, it’s off-topic and pretentious!
Anyway, after several similar posts (which I rather consider as SPAM), she soon applied for an original character. I didn’t mind, but I told her that in case there was a non-rper who wanted to be a judge, she’d be replaced by the non-rper (judging your own character’s performance surely isn’t very fair). In her application, she also added the sentence: I think my application is pretty good.
A few weeks passed, and she decided to apply for her favourite canon character, and this character happens to be the most complex one in the entire series. I checked her application, there were a lot of spelling mistakes (like in every one of her posts) and the phrases were purely weird. No one, not even the native speakers I asked were able to understand her phrases and I told her that in my reply (which was honest, objective and polite). What did she reply?
She didn’t admit her mistakes; on the contrary, she started to “explain” what she meant and talked to me as if it was my fault for not understanding her phrases, as if I was an idiot. But the truth is that her explanation was totally far-fetched – and then I got really pissed and told her my real opinion in my reply. She gave up and remained silent, for a few weeks. THEN A SECOND APP. FOR THE SAME CHARACTER FOLLOWED.
It was a bit better, but still not good enough, I discussed everything with the staffers and they agreed. And this time, I didn’t have the nerve to argue with her and just declined it immediately in the first reply, without any suggestions. Her answer:
WTF?! What gives her the right to be tougher on him as a judge when someone else is roleplaying him? You can already see what a sore loser she is. She resents an other person for getting something she herself wanted and she even goes further:
In the c-box, she keeps complaining that she didn’t get the character (Yunoki) and in certain aspects, also blamed me. She posted about ten times how much she resembles the character (“Sometimes, I have a heart of ice just like Yunoki…” blahblah). After her complaints, she started to plug her own forum in a very inelegant way (several c-box posts): “join my forum, I joined yours” (that’s what she said to another member). Astriol is unbearable.
So now, I feel the urge to tell her everything I think about her, to criticise her guts and to fire her as a judge. What do you think? I even want to augment her warning level...
I erased her c-box posts the moment I saw them...I was so furious!!!!!
I really need a place to rant now – or else I’d explode! O.o But I also want to ask for advice…
Okay, well, the reason for all my stress is a member in my forum, Astriol. I would like to start from the very beginning – it will probably be a bit long, but…I am really furious at the moment…
One day, a new member joined and her name was Astriol. She instantly applied for the position of a judge and I approved her (I didn’t know anything about her back then and believed that she was okay just like everybody else). After her approval as judge, she started to post more in the forum and I slowly started to realize that she is a person who likes to show off. In the c-box, she bragged several times about her abilities as a dancer, as a musician, as a writer - on the whole, she bragged about everything and it seems as if she really thinks that she is a genius (someone talented in everything). She also likes to hear other compliment her, sometimes she'd intentionally go around asking others what they think about her idea, even though she already posted it in a thread. Once, someone said "You're the smart one, so start the RP thread" and she was so happy that she replied "Thanks for calling me smart, YAY!"
I will mention a few more examples now: Member XY has opened a thread to show her photographs. Everyone replies with constructive and mostly positive feedback, everyone except for Astriol. What did she reply?
Oh My Gosh!! Every Single one of my pictures turnned out perfect!!!! I took a picture of these skull lokking things and when I developed the picture it glows. It's amazing once I get a chance I'll download the pics.
She didn’t refer to XY’s pictures, but started to praise herself in someone else’s thread (btw, she hasn't shown any of her works, which makes me doubt whether she really is so talented like she always pretends to be)! And this is spam, it’s off-topic and pretentious!
Anyway, after several similar posts (which I rather consider as SPAM), she soon applied for an original character. I didn’t mind, but I told her that in case there was a non-rper who wanted to be a judge, she’d be replaced by the non-rper (judging your own character’s performance surely isn’t very fair). In her application, she also added the sentence: I think my application is pretty good.
A few weeks passed, and she decided to apply for her favourite canon character, and this character happens to be the most complex one in the entire series. I checked her application, there were a lot of spelling mistakes (like in every one of her posts) and the phrases were purely weird. No one, not even the native speakers I asked were able to understand her phrases and I told her that in my reply (which was honest, objective and polite). What did she reply?
She didn’t admit her mistakes; on the contrary, she started to “explain” what she meant and talked to me as if it was my fault for not understanding her phrases, as if I was an idiot. But the truth is that her explanation was totally far-fetched – and then I got really pissed and told her my real opinion in my reply. She gave up and remained silent, for a few weeks. THEN A SECOND APP. FOR THE SAME CHARACTER FOLLOWED.
It was a bit better, but still not good enough, I discussed everything with the staffers and they agreed. And this time, I didn’t have the nerve to argue with her and just declined it immediately in the first reply, without any suggestions. Her answer:
Oh well! I gave it a shot. I wish I could have played him. I guess I have to be tougher on him as a judge then . I guess it just wasn't meant to be that I play the beautiful mysterious boy that is deeply in tuned with his inner problems. Oh well! Good luck Yunoki searching!
WTF?! What gives her the right to be tougher on him as a judge when someone else is roleplaying him? You can already see what a sore loser she is. She resents an other person for getting something she herself wanted and she even goes further:
If the Yunoki rper is not going to be a flautist called Astriol I will be heartbroken
In the c-box, she keeps complaining that she didn’t get the character (Yunoki) and in certain aspects, also blamed me. She posted about ten times how much she resembles the character (“Sometimes, I have a heart of ice just like Yunoki…” blahblah). After her complaints, she started to plug her own forum in a very inelegant way (several c-box posts): “join my forum, I joined yours” (that’s what she said to another member). Astriol is unbearable.
So now, I feel the urge to tell her everything I think about her, to criticise her guts and to fire her as a judge. What do you think? I even want to augment her warning level...
I erased her c-box posts the moment I saw them...I was so furious!!!!!
