A form of complaint that is also exactly what it is complaining about. Many metacomplaints are also recursive complaints, but not all of them.

Examples of recursive complaints:

• "Pakistanis are the most racist people I know"
• "nodes that complain about other people's noding styles" ( this is actually technically a self-referential node, but it contains a recursive complaint.)
• "Recursive complaints suck"
• "People who start sentences beginning with 'People who' really get on my nerves"
• "All men are horribly sexist"

See also metawhiner, hypocrisy and TWAJS.