What's The Worst Forum You Have Ever Been On?

Irwin said:
The worst forums are the ones that allow personal attacks. Some people like that kind of thing. We've seen people join SFs who want to be able to insult others and they don't last long because the admins don't allow it here. Those kinds of people are incapable of engaging in honest dialogue or debate or discussion so they resort to insults. That's all they know how to do. It's pathetic.
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I agree with your first statement there, but from my experiences what's worse is when individuals for no apparent reason target somebody and go 'behind the scenes' to get the person banned. And the person- in this case me- hadn't done anything wrong and never knew what went on.

The first forum allowed members to email others through the forum. A tech-savvy friend said the only logical explanation was a member edited my emails to say something I had not said. Neither of the admins would even check to see what actually happened. And I didn't even know I was 'banned for life' til another member emailed me one morning and asked me what the reason was.
As their motto is "Do only that which is right," boy are they ever hypocrites. I'd been a member of ulc.net/forum for many years, and lost something that was very important to me.

I was also on another forum for many years, but not nearly as active. Private messages were generally people who asked me for info on writing topics such as publishing companies. A new member joined, and started getting personal- adding x's and o's to messages, etc. It was not a 'dating' site, so I tried to politely ignore his comments.
I approached moderators, and they said they'd deal with him. But when I tried to log in, I saw I was 'banned for life.'
Worsening matters, one of the mods followed (stalked) me to Topix, where numerous other people said they'd had similar experiences. I do not want to pass on rumors, but I don't think it's a coincidence that everybody who spoke out about these bannings from city-data forum were minorities.
 
katlupe said:
I have been on many different forums over the years. Not any other senior one though. The worst ones that I have left or fake book groups that I have been on are, I kid you not.........rabbit ones! Those people bully others instantly on seeing that you do not follow care of your rabbit as they do. Get very mean and cruel to others. I see that happen to someone and I am gone. Yes, many times I do not agree with how someone else cares for their pet bunny, but if you are nice to them, they will return and maybe start changing the way they are doing things just by reading what others do. Instead they are out the door.........
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You must have bunnies. Yes, one of the attacks I got on that Post Punk Kitchen forum was related to my cats. My cats are strictly indoors and receive excellent care. But when someone needs to attack, they will. I think I got a total of two of these when I was there.
 
@FastTrax They shut down the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) forums a few years ago. I'm sure it was for trolling also. I miss those forums because even some of the old TV show forums were relatively active. But people always have to ruin it.

That place sounds diabolical.
 
Lawrence said:
The worst forums and facebook groups are military forums that I used to be in. I was in many different Army and Navy divisions. Many people in those groups are threatening and like to imtinate other members.
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That's terrible. I have heard Facebook groups can be brutal on all kinds of subjects. I've never joined one. I have a Facebook page, mostly pictures of my cats and I don't check it often and rarely post or reply.
 
I was in a brain injury forum, as my late wife was bean injured. I stayed there after she passed away to help other caregivers and victims deal with their problems. One day the owner of the site decided i had been there long enough and kicked me off the site. The response I got from members was heartwarming, ass they could not understand what had happened.
 
I belonged to a now defunct financial retirement forum for a couple of years about ten years ago. I was eventually banned because I often defended small business owners - which I was and am. I was banned after daring to state that customers aren't always right and in fact, customers are often in the wrong. In any case, the site owner sang mostly a one-note financial song based on his interpretation of the "Rich Dad Poor Dad" book and often included advertising links in his postings to yield him financial rewards when forum members clicked through and purchased.

Leaving there was no great loss, but the experience was valuable because it opened me up for another type of forum...

I've cruised several of the forums others mentioned above, but this is the only place that I call home.

Despite mostly detesting it because of the endless politicking, complaining and gossiping, I am a member of NextDoor. I joined under a pseudonym and fake, nearby address. I rarely view the site and never post, but continue to belong as a source of info when during local emergencies.
 
Sadly, I belonged to my hometown forum that was supposed to talk about "the good ole days" of growing up in the town. For the most part, it was fun to walk down memory lane with "kids" I grew up with but then a subject of an architectural structure that was built in the middle of town that was a real eyesore was brought up. There were hundreds of negative comments but, for some reason, when I said it didn't fit in with the rest of the architecture in town, I was singled out by a guy that called me an "old bitch" and I must be very unhappy with my life and he said I was trying to destroy his childhood memories....and on and on he went. WHAT??? It upset me. The moderator did nothing. I'm not on FB any more, but that was a bad experience for me.
 
I am not one for forums or social media sites but many years back I joined Facebook and boy was that a big mistake. I joined basically see if I could get into contact with some old high school friends which I did and that was all fine. Then because I did put in the information of my high school I started getting all these requests from people in my high school from my year and while I was there that i really didn't know and then there was the ads and the political crap. I was like the heck with it and contacted the friends and gave them my telephone number and e-mail and said keep in contact that way and it has worked.
 
Remy said:
That's terrible. I have heard Facebook groups can be brutal on all kinds of subjects. I've never joined one. I have a Facebook page, mostly pictures of my cats and I don't check it often and rarely post or reply.
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They can be but it depends on the people who actually start it. I belong to 3 different Keto ones that are great. In fact, they go live on their YouTube channel and talk to the members of the group. If it is someone's birthday they will sing happy birthday to them. It is a lot of fun and they do not allow anyone to bully anyone. It is also very helpful to anyone following the Keto lifestyle with factual information. They call it a family and it is the first time I felt that on a group on fb.
 
Remy said:
@FastTrax They shut down the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) forums a few years ago. I'm sure it was for trolling also. I miss those forums because even some of the old TV show forums were relatively active. But people always have to ruin it.

That place sounds diabolical.
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I loved the IMDB forums. So sad they were ruined. On a similar note, I think Yahoo stopped comments on articles for the same reason. I used to love the positive interactions on there,,but got ruined by trolls
 
Usenet's Soc.Retirement (retirement and politics) was at one time the best, but is now dead, dying, and the worst. It's what brought me here. Usenet was one of the earliest manifestations of the Internet and at one time a fascinating place, but has unfortunately become a cluttered junk filled manifestation of what it once was.
 
bowmore said:
I was in a brain injury forum, as my late wife was bean injured. I stayed there after she passed away to help other caregivers and victims deal with their problems. One day the owner of the site decided i had been there long enough and kicked me off the site. The response I got from members was heartwarming, ass they could not understand what had happened.
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I'm so sorry. How sad and pathetic on the part of that site owner. You still had experiences and valuable information and support to offer. Very cruel of that person.
 
Colleen said:
Sadly, I belonged to my hometown forum that was supposed to talk about "the good ole days" of growing up in the town. For the most part, it was fun to walk down memory lane with "kids" I grew up with but then a subject of an architectural structure that was built in the middle of town that was a real eyesore was brought up. There were hundreds of negative comments but, for some reason, when I said it didn't fit in with the rest of the architecture in town, I was singled out by a guy that called me an "old bitch" and I must be very unhappy with my life and he said I was trying to destroy his childhood memories....and on and on he went. WHAT??? It upset me. The moderator did nothing. I'm not on FB any more, but that was a bad experience for me.
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Wow! So uncalled for. I'd guess there was some projection on his part going on.
 
Jules said:
They sure can. I belong to the local forum so I can find out what is happening in town, but I never post. The first person to respond to the OP sets the tone. Wow! It doesn’t give one much faith in society.
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This is often very true. One negative comment and the rest follow. It's like someone can't post a positive comment after a negative?
 
Remy said:
I'm so sorry. How sad and pathetic on the part of that site owner. You still had experiences and valuable information and support to offer. Very cruel of that person.
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Thank you, Remy. There was an upside, though. Someone on that site suggested I go to a grief recovery site to help dealing with the loss of my wife.
I was very active there, and there was a lady who was widowed about the same time I was. Long story short, we met in person, and recently celebrated our 14th anniversary together. As a bonus, her 2 sons really like me, and my sons and my mom like her.
 
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bowmore said:
Thank you, Remi. There was an upside, though. Someone on that site suggested I go to a grief recovery site to help dealing with the loss of my wife.
I was very active there, and there was a lady who was widowed about the same time I was. Long story short, we met in person, and recently celebrated our 14th anniversary together. As a bonus, her 2 sons really like me, and my sons and my mom like her.
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That's wonderful!
 
oldiebutgoody said:
I've been on several websites that fit the category of worst of all time. All of them having right wing biases which reflect Hitlerian outlooks on life and politics. A great many of them professing Christian. If you post the truth, back it up with facts, and try to reason with these half wits, they gang up on you, call you all manner of epithets, pretend that you are a communist, and then act as if they are god's holy children and doing the world and the known universe a great favor by censoring you. Some even make death threats with the blessings of the forum admins.

Bunch of phonies and antichrists.
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Sounds just like a Christian forum I briefly belonged to. They were so political you would have thought Jesus had returned to back their candidates and if you dared to say anything against their chosen ones you were from the devil.

I wasted a lot of years on a forum called, "Ship of Fools," connected with a humorous Church of England magazine called "Christian Unrest." Their main sections are called Heaven, Purgatory and Hell. It was Heaven that sucked me in with lots of light hearted discussions about movies, books and general whimsy. Purgatory was serious discussion about religion and politics. There lied the danger.

Say something that was against the tide of opinion and you would be "Called to Hell" where a special thread in your name would be opened and everyone invited to insult and dog pile you for a dozen pages if they desired. One by one all the interesting people left and now it's just the clique of like minded vultures, circling, as they wait for a newbie to come along and say something they don't like. I still miss the nice people in "Heaven" but they can't make up for the moderator-supported "Hell."
 
Another one was RealCities who had forums on several newspapers throughout the USA. Naturally it was right wing except for the one in Miami Herald. There, the patriots out numbered the right wingers and we often had a field day crucifying them.
 
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