On 28/06/07, ElinorD <elinordf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It sounds to me like an immature kid, just out of his
teens, finding it fun,
as an insignificant new user, to tell a few whoppers about being a Professor
of Theology, then, as a result of some genuinely good qualities, becoming
popular on Wikipedia, becoming an administrator, rising still higher, and
finding himself trapped in the lies that he had started as before he ever
suspected that he was going to rise to power. Obviously it was wrong, but it
wasn't a scheming, calculating, plan to gain positions of trust. As far as I
know, he gained those positions by being friendly and helpful, not by saying
that he had two doctorates.
Yes. Essjay gained all his administrative positions by being good and
clueful. You can't fake that.
- d.