They do tend to stick out in your mind. I'm getting over-sensitive I reckon but often a dud player makes the game so frustrating to play or GM I often feel like chucking it in. I've developed the mantra of "no gaming is better than bad gaming" as I get older.
The unfortunate players, apart from ghosts which you can't even interact with, are very hard to retrain. They often have no idea what their effects are. I recently had a guy who wouldn't post in-game but gave regular updates on his busy life on the OOC thread, wanting to make me tear my hair out. I talked to him offlist but he didn't seem to understand the problem.
As for one that's a problem I might add:
The Commander:
This person makes orders and refuses to countenance any deviation. They expect their orders carried out to the letter and often micro-manage other players, even when not personally present. It's very dangerous to let this PC have NPCs to control as they then end up all over the battlefield barking orders at other players. Woe betide the GM that hands out radios to the group and lets this person get one, and they will get one.
Their main negative effect is that they drive everyone away. Once productive posters go silent or start posting monosyllabic responses as the game is not an environment they enjoy.
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