-----Original Message----- From: Luna [mailto:lunasantin@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2007 11:05 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] psychosis and wikipedia.
On 1/9/07, Christopher Thieme cdthieme@gmail.com wrote:
Something like that would probably explain a lot about the bitterness, control issues, the incessant desire to be "right", etc. that some people have when approaching the subject of editing.
There's a goodly amount of ego involved, I think. Being able to say "I wrote that, it's on Wikipedia" is pretty cool, to me, and I imagine other people feel much the same way. Add into that a desire to feel "smart," and the need to feel right and accepted among these other "smart" people is at least a bit explained.
Something along these lines, perhaps: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?AttentionSeeker
There are certain instances involving users who seek recognition and having been recognized, seek prerogatives based on their recognition. There is considerable community sentiment favoring such recognition and prerogatives.
Fred
Or, there's always Penny Arcade's take: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
But yeah, a more serious study of some sort would probably have some nifty results. I'd be interested, at least.
-Luna