Thank you Nathan.
"there is a particular person who is an absolutely outstanding article
writer, but has a longstanding habit of acting like a jerk on a regular
basis. The community and the committee have repeatedly shown themselves to
be incapable of finding a solution to that problem, and this is no
exception."
Is there a term for this phenomenon? There has to be, somewhere. It happens
offline all the time - that super accomplished professional who gets to
treat everyone like dirt and get away with it because everyone admires
their work. So exacerbated in an online community though because this
person can terrorize so many more people with their behavior in so much
less time.
(And if there isn't a term, there should at least be a meme...)
--
Krystle Chung
Community Support
http://www.wikihow.com/User:Krystle
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Nathan
nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
> It's really two issues - one, there was some disruption and misconduct
> around the Gender Gap wikiproject that really got overblown a bit and never
> needed to be an arbitration case to begin with. Granted that some of the
> participants weren't really contributing in good faith, and that there was
> a little bit of misunderstanding and overreaction on the part of some who
> were.
>
> The second issue is that there is a particular person who is an absolutely
> outstanding article writer, but has a longstanding habit of acting like a
> jerk on a regular basis. The community and the committee have repeatedly
> shown themselves to be incapable of finding a solution to that problem, and
> this is no exception.
>
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