--- David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Well I think you did overdo it, but I can't bring myself to regret you said that. Irismeister has exhausted my patience, several times over. I'm
tired
of being lectured on civility by someone who, and
this
is the nicest thing I can think of to say, is
either
lacking in self-awareness or has a fine sense of
irony
and is mocking us all.
Check Talk:Iridology. It's fairly well established that he's using Wikipedia as a self-promotional medium - tracing through the web of web pages, Wikipedia user pages in various languages, WHOIS data and so on.
Yes, I was heavily involved in [[iridology]] before I couldn't cope with him any longer. I gathered a great deal of evidence for the arbitration committee by reading through every one of his edits over the course of two days.
Tim Starling posted a link to IRC today about trolls, and I was interested to see that the kind called "The Abstract" fitted Irismeister to a T: http://www.io.com/~zikzak/troll_thesis.html#3.3
"Perhaps one of the most interesting types of trolls is what shall be referred to here as "Abstract". They are known to produce long, stream of conscious rants that frequently appear to devolve into utter nonsense. Close inspection of 42 unique Abstract trolls, however, revealed a stunning degree of complexity and duplicitous meaning hidden within the words, calling to mind Dadaist works by Joyce and Lucas. One particularly lengthy rant was actually a fairly insightful deconstruction of Hasidic numerology as compared to Pagan cabalistic works.
"Meyers-Briggs results were 23% iStP, with another 15% being yHBt, and all showing a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations, which is strongly indicative of a narcissistic personality.[7] This narcissism was further shown to tend towards an authority complex."
But trolling on wikipedia isn't enough of a reason to ban someone, I discover, otherwise we'd have banned a handful of our most blatant trolls a long time ago.
Fabiform.
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