QUOTE(Cla68 @ Sun 11th May 2008, 3:57am)
I came back from a weekend away from the computer and found this
furball on my user talk page. Those guys are trying to push back fairly hard. I'm going to look at the links you provided here and look harder at the ID-related articles and try to get fully oriented with the situation beyond what I know of a few behavioral issues with some of the editors in question.
Good grief.
What I see there is a curious clique of anankastic characters exchanging vaguely worded anankastic conditionals with each other.
There is a subtle but significant distinction between
coercion and
manipulation.
Rather than slip into my customary mode of insufferable pedantry, I'll leave it as an exercise for the intelligent reader to tease out the nuances between coercion and manipulation.