Most Disappointing Moments on TheTopTens

This list was inspired by lovefrombadland's lists "Top 10 Happiest Moments on TheTopTens" and "Top 10 Embarrassing Moments on TheTopTens". Be sure to check those lists out!
The Top Ten
1 When you lose followers

Its like stocks handling in a way you gamble, and try to follow to most obscure users, and then just when you think your rasing up popularity you lose those boosts suddenly the next few days its strange.

Actually, it's bouncing around because Mindcrime disappeared, then reappeared as the Mariner, and now disappeared again, causing this 1 follower difference

Does it matter? Why is it that reputation is heavily emphasized in the site? You're here to make lists, not crave popularity.

This hasn't happened to me yet, but I don't know why I get followers in the first place

2 When you work really hard on a list and it doesn't get featured

This sucks, I have seen some lists that should be featured, but are not

3 When you tell someone a list you're going to make but then he/she steals your idea

I'm the one who usually does it out of guilt, but then again others do that method too so whatever I guess if there fine with it I shouldn't bother back at them.

That's why you don't tell people your making a list that your going to make.

Very rarely, I actually decide to give away ideas to someone

I’ve never had this happen, but I did make half of the initial list for a certain list for a certain user who never gave me credit for it...

4 When people insult your list/post

My list of reasons why the Ice Age sequels were great got so much hate for some reason, just because I prefer them over the original does not mean they can insult me (looking at you VGF5)

The user cupcakes22 bullied me in my own list for hating a character

Again add fuel is the worst mistake you ever made.

5 When your image doesn't get approved
6 When people think you're a bad user

Ugh... I believe that's based on how you directly view the situation putting yourself into eventually taking a long time for forgiveness even.

Imagine getting harassed by users because you like rap music.

Why should you care about what other people think?

People think that about me!

7 When your list gets returned
8 When your post took hours to make but no one went to it

All of my four latest movie reviews took a while to make but nobody didn't reaslly seem to care about them, and then posts I made that were called "Rate Me" and "Ask darthvadern", but pretty much no one is caring about them, what's even worse is that other users always get so much questons and ratings on their posts...

Yep that's me multiple times I make many series episodes, but half the time my audience is widely inconsistent from getting a ton messages to diddly squat shown day after day.

I personally don't care about this one too much, after all, I mainly write my posts as a hobby, and if anyone reads them, then even better.

I'm not really that concerned about attention. I just make lists because I enjoy expressing my taste in some form.

9 When your perfectly good list gets ruined by trolls

That's kinda your fault for not setting the list self-moderated if you don't want your list to be vandalized.

Then you counter it by ruining there plans, and get 20+ users to fix the ugly into better cleansed.

*cough* Season 10 of SpongeBob *cough*

My Pokemon list for example.

10 When you check your notifications and see no new ones

This happens to me almost every time I check my notifications there is no new ones

The Contenders
11 When you work really hard on a list and it doesn't get approved
12 When people tell you that they didn't like your post even though it took hours to make

As long as people giving you constructive criticism, people saying your post isn't that good is actually a good thing, as it can help you improve your content

That's just your typical salty hater heel in the crowd which fuels you to get better in clever writing.

13 When people make a list similar to yours and you lose all the votes because that one got more popular

I made a list one time, and someone did the exact same thing except about a certain genre of music and not just in general, and theirs got featured!

Unless the user messages you of the situation all is forgiven peacefully.

14 When you thought you already had an original and creative idea for a list but then someone had made the list already

This is the main reason why I don't make lists before. But now, I already made 7 lists. 6 community lists and 1 self moderated list.

Yeah that's a bummer for me. Best way to counter this is simply make a remix based on that list

That's basically similar to number seven pretty much.

I hate when this happens. Or when you try to reword and fix it and admin still doesn’t approve it

15 When you add an item and it doesn't get approved
16 When your list takes forever to get approved
17 When you already had an original and creative idea for a list but then you can't think of the last few items to put

Yeah you gotta put filler items even if you fully can't digest into what to put into them still throw them in there for the sake of it.

I do that all the time!

18 When one of your friends on the website accuses you of not caring about them when you care about them a lot
19 When your list gets merged
20 When your image takes forever to get approved
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