{"id":29948,"date":"2013-02-15T10:31:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T18:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-o.ning.com\/?p=29948"},"modified":"2018-12-13T01:58:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T09:58:39","slug":"how-to-deal-with-antagonistic-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/how-to-deal-with-antagonistic-members.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Deal With Antagonistic Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many community managers are either too slow or too fast to remove antagonistic members. They either remove the antagonistic member without fully realizing the role this individual plays within the community, or they spend copious amounts of time trying to convert the antagonist into a happy member.<\/p>\n

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One community manager I spoke with a few weeks ago had recently spent half a day<\/i> resolving a problem with antagonistic members. That’s insane, what happens when you have 20 antagonistic members a week? Are you going to spend ALL your time on your community’s unhappy participants?<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many community managers are either too slow or too fast to remove antagonistic members. 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