The sadly comical irony is, for anyone teetering on the brink of psychosis, I can't imagine what more we, as an institution, could have done to push people into believing allegations. Seriously... If we had all gotten together at a secret location and brainstormed for days on how to, as a prank, try to convince the world that SV = LM = MI5 agent who is controlling Wikipedia, we could never have come up with anything better than what we've actually done-- * Suppressing mere mention of the allegation, even after it's on slashdot, * Deleting good faith questions of slashdot readers asking what's up, * Trying to delete links to ANY site where somebody might accidentally stumble upon the SV=LM=MI5 story, or even sites that link to sites that might make the allegation * Trying to indef block and otherwise attack anyone who resist the purges. You couldn't WRITE a better conspiracy theory than this. Our behavior has been a recipe for how to increase the population of tin-foil-hat wearers. And of course, it's actually all fueled by compassion and defensiveness, not by any conspiracy. But woe to anyone out there in internet land who might be off their meds-- they must be having quite a ride. Alec

The sadly comical irony is, for anyone teetering on the brink of psychosis, I can't imagine what more we, as an institution, could have done to push people into believing allegations. Seriously... If we had all gotten together at a secret location and brainstormed for days on how to, as a prank, try to convince the world that SV = LM = MI5 agent who is controlling Wikipedia, we could never have come up with anything better than what we've actually done-- * Suppressing mere mention of the allegation, even after it's on slashdot, * Deleting good faith questions of slashdot readers asking what's up, * Trying to delete links to ANY site where somebody might accidentally stumble upon the SV=LM=MI5 story, or even sites that link to sites that might make the allegation * Trying to indef block and otherwise attack anyone who resist the purges. You couldn't WRITE a better conspiracy theory than this. Our behavior has been a recipe for how to increase the population of tin-foil-hat wearers. And of course, it's actually all fueled by compassion and defensiveness, not by any conspiracy. But woe to anyone out there in internet land who might be off their meds-- they must be having quite a ride. Alec

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