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What has been your worst ever experience with a member on a forum you run or have fan in the past?

I'm talking about a problem member or some kind of moderation event.

I've had a few bad experiences with members. I run a Christian forum and we get a lot of weirdos who have been banned from the bigger Christian ones and then eventually find their way to ours. A few of them thought they were God and one threatened me after I banned him. I told him if he was really God that he could unban himself.

My worst experience as an owner was partnering with someone who started taking controversial decision and picking a fight with other forum owners. As a forum user, I was banned just because I didn't belong to "their racial group" This is one of the worst experience I had in my 14 years of forum posting.

I had a member spam my forum labelling me as a scammer, because they didn't receive their withdrawal yet with one of the poker sites I partner with.

I made the mistake of promoting someone I didn't know to admin. She ended up deleting the theme I had installed and installed a bunch of themes that didn't fit the niche of the forum. I immediately banned her afterwards, and she went to the Proboards support forum to complain that she was banned from my forum.