[WikiEN-l] psychosis and wikipedia.

[David Gerard]

On 10/01/07, Christopher Thieme <cdthieme at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd love to see some psychology-oriented individual do a case study on what
> kind of people are attracted to editing on Wikipedia.  What psychological
> defects lurk behind the computer screens and the keyboards.  Why do I ask?
> Because in the last month (including right now), I've gotten in spats, edit
> wars, content disputes, with people who would be poster children for
> narcissitic personality disorder and one of several temporal lobe disorders,
> respectively.
> 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.


I was given 'CyberSelfish' by Paulina Borsook (written 2000) for
Christmas. Just finished reading it. It was about annoying dot-com
technolibertarians, but it explained AFD for me perfectly.


- d.