On 27/10/2007, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Quoting David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
Because people would rather believe there is a conspiracy to suppress the truth than that they are wrong.
To some extent that's the case. But it doesn't help matters that we often aren't nearly diplomatic enough with people with little or no prior experience with editing Wikipedia. And I think there are occasions with cabalism does actually occur or enough discussion occurs off Wikipedia that it could easily look like cabalism to a bystander.
Oh, certainly. But the case which was posted as an example (everyone should read that blog entry, it's wonderful and proves AFD can do its job well) is a good example of theorists who work by finding three coincidences, assuming bad faith and seeing what they get from there.
- d.