--- David Gerard <fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
Well I think
you did overdo it, but I can't bring
myself to regret you said that. Irismeister has
exhausted my patience, several times over. I'm
tired
of being lectured on civility by someone who, and
this
is the nicest thing I can think of to say, is
either
lacking in self-awareness or has a fine sense of
irony
and is mocking us all.
Check Talk:Iridology. It's fairly well established
that he's using Wikipedia
as a self-promotional medium - tracing through the
web of web pages, Wikipedia
user pages in various languages, WHOIS data and so
on.
Yes, I was heavily involved in [[iridology]] before I
couldn't cope with him any longer. I gathered a great
deal of evidence for the arbitration committee by
reading through every one of his edits over the course
of two days.
Tim Starling posted a link to IRC today about trolls,
and I was interested to see that the kind called "The
Abstract" fitted Irismeister to a T:
http://www.io.com/~zikzak/troll_thesis.html#3.3
"Perhaps one of the most interesting types of trolls
is what shall be referred to here as "Abstract". They
are known to produce long, stream of conscious rants
that frequently appear to devolve into utter nonsense.
Close inspection of 42 unique Abstract trolls,
however, revealed a stunning degree of complexity and
duplicitous meaning hidden within the words, calling
to mind Dadaist works by Joyce and Lucas. One
particularly lengthy rant was actually a fairly
insightful deconstruction of Hasidic numerology as
compared to Pagan cabalistic works.
"Meyers-Briggs results were 23% iStP, with another 15%
being yHBt, and all showing a sense of entitlement,
i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially
favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his
or her expectations, which is strongly indicative of a
narcissistic personality.[7] This narcissism was
further shown to tend towards an authority complex."
But trolling on wikipedia isn't enough of a reason to
ban someone, I discover, otherwise we'd have banned a
handful of our most blatant trolls a long time ago.
Fabiform.
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