We had one person like the OP's. No matter what I did, he would complain about it.

For example I installed Cyb's Donate Link mod and he complained for two days because the link in the navbar was green.

We eventually ended up banning him because he finally crossed the line.

Nice one :D:D

That is absolutely amazing. Very great story. I hope/don't hope to do that.

I point and laugh. If they're whining constantly about everything, then they're politely told that if they don't like it they know where the log out button is. Luckily my sites don't generate a lot of whiners, and when one appears they're usually dealt with by my members before I even hit the site LOL

It depends really on what they're whining about..

Sometimes I just tell them to grow up, or if they're really anoying to the community, then I use my ...

http://homepage.mac.com/demonhood/banhammer2.jpg

Ban hammer.

You could always just close any of their threads and give them infractions. Works well here I think...?

Many negative reputation ratings will put members in a very restrictive user group. This confines those members to certain area's. The fish bowl effect. I have instructions on how they can improve, which means they will either wise up or get fed up.

The some whiners get whined backed at, because they get an additional usergroup. This usergroup has the 'extra' of having music when browsing. I did some research on the most annoying sounds to humans and most aweful songs on the net and this really changes the browsing experience. It's amazing what a simple <if condition= can do.

The real problemmakers get banned or redirected to shocksites.

there's not a reputation hack for users vote on social skills? I remember one: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ighlight=karma

so users can tag their fellas...

Don't need a hack for reputation/karma.. it's now inbuilt into vB ;)

You guys overlooked the best tactic.


At Keyhunt, we have a lot of whinging and I'll admit I was one of the whingers, but the staff became strict, and used a mixed tactic of humor (try not to snarf instead of try not to flame, for instance) and being harsh on the members (if you didnt trade or have anything to contribute to the community, you would be removed basically).

It kind of brought everything back together.