[WikiEN-l] Psychosis and Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 13/05/07, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:

> Is there any psychologist here which can explain why such people are
> attracted to wikipedia?


[[Crank (person)]] used to have a very good Bruce Sterling quote about this:

"And even the emoticon doesn't help much in one's halting interaction
with the occasional online stranger who is, in fact, gravely
sociopathic. Online communication can wonderfully liberate the tender
soul of some well-meaning personage who, for whatever reason, is
physically uncharismatic. Unfortunately, online communication also
fertilizes the eccentricities of hopeless cranks, who at last find
themselves in firm possession of a wondrous soapbox that the
Trilateral Commission and the Men In Black had previously denied
them."


- d.