On 13/05/07, Bogdan Giusca liste@dapyx.com wrote:
Is there any psychologist here which can explain why such people are attracted to wikipedia?
[[Crank (person)]] used to have a very good Bruce Sterling quote about this:
"And even the emoticon doesn't help much in one's halting interaction with the occasional online stranger who is, in fact, gravely sociopathic. Online communication can wonderfully liberate the tender soul of some well-meaning personage who, for whatever reason, is physically uncharismatic. Unfortunately, online communication also fertilizes the eccentricities of hopeless cranks, who at last find themselves in firm possession of a wondrous soapbox that the Trilateral Commission and the Men In Black had previously denied them."
- d.