On 28/06/07, ElinorD elinordf@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.