[WikiEN-l] Attack Site Wars, Episode VII... The Return of the Essjay

[David Gerard]

On 28/06/07, ElinorD <elinordf at gmail.com> wrote:

> It sounds to me like an immature kid, just out of his teens, finding it fun,
> as an insignificant new user, to tell a few whoppers about being a Professor
> of Theology, then, as a result of some genuinely good qualities, becoming
> popular on Wikipedia, becoming an administrator, rising still higher, and
> finding himself trapped in the lies that he had started as before he ever
> suspected that he was going to rise to power. Obviously it was wrong, but it
> wasn't a scheming, calculating, plan to gain positions of trust. As far as I
> know, he gained those positions by being friendly and helpful, not by saying
> that he had two doctorates.


Yes. Essjay gained all his administrative positions by being good and
clueful. You can't fake that.


- d.