On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, David Gerard wrote:
Geoff Burling wrote:
He's become a difficult problem, & all of
the easy solutions have
been tried & shown not to work. And he's gotten to the point
where attacking Wikipedia has become his life: calling that
"pathetic" doesn't properly do it justice.
Skyring's life is denial. If he's in this much denial about being the
author of his own misfortunes on Wikipedia, he's well practiced in the
art and will be in denial about lots of things. However, he's actually
noteworthy enough to get an article (for his work on Bookcrossing -
he's doing getting a metric shitload of press and media on it of late,
check his blog, and his past involvements in politics).
I followed your link to his diary on LiveJournal, & it was boring --
punitively boring. (Did I do something that deserved reading that for
all of that time?) I don't blog -- although I've tried -- but I doubt
anything *I* could write would be so banally polyanna. Either the
man happily lives a shallow life, or he is omitting a heckuva lot of
what is actually happening around him. (I heard Isabel Allende once
making an interesting comment about why working class readers prefer
happy but unrealistic fiction over real but grim stories: people who
live a grim life want to read stories that are cheerful & uplifting
to distract them from their grey lives. I thought of her words as
I worked my way thru Skyring's paragraphs of treacle.)
Geoff