Karen banned from HOA-sanctioned neighborhood chat after she personally goes after the moderator in charge of the forum: 'I don't think she was told no as a child'

If you're going to act like a child, you're going to be treated like a child. 

This neighbor was just trying to keep their neighborhood chat productive, filtering out hateful comments and ranting complaints, but when a Karen insisted on flooding the chat with fruitless negativity, they put a stop to it. She threw tantrums like a toddler and, therefore, was treated like one. 

It was time for a Karen timeout. 

Now, it's understandable to be frustrated with your local HOA. Oftentimes, it feels like the HOA is spending monthly fees on useless things like landscaping, leaf-blowing, and mailbox renovations. There are many corrupt HOA's out there in the world, but the one in this story was actually quite wholesome. Opinions were crowdsourced and taken into consideration, and the board was a collection of live-in residents who only wanted the best for the community. It was what an HOA is supposed to be: a community run by the community. 

Yet, this Karen wanted to be the sole voice of the entire neighborhood. 

She would hoot and holler the loudest at every HOA board meeting and would constantly nitpick the way things were run. Although some of her frustrations were warranted, spamming the local neighborhood chat every 5 minutes wasn't going to get things solved any faster. Finally, this Karen kicked her pushy behavior and entitlement into overdrive, hoping to strong-arm the neighborhood chat moderator into appeasing her demands. 

But what she didn't take into account was that this chat mod was no pushover. 

They were aware of the negative complaints against this resident, and when pressured for personal information, like their address and cell phone number, they refused to give in to the Karen. Instead, they ghosted her angry, childish tirades, went straight to the board for approval, and got her totally banned from commenting in the chat anymore. 

She can still be a passive resident, of course, receiving monthly newsletters of finalized HOA plans, but this Karen lost all of her back-end privileges to chime in when she got way too personal and way too threatening with one of her astute neighbors. 

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