[WikiEN-l] psychosis and wikipedia.

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Luna [mailto:lunasantin at gmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2007 11:05 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] psychosis and wikipedia.
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>On 1/9/07, Christopher Thieme <cdthieme at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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