QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Tue 23rd June 2009, 4:28pm)
I have some ideas of my own about how this could be achieved in a humane and decent way, but interested in the views of others.
It probably depends on whether they're to be treated as addicts, criminals, cult-brainwashing victims, abuse victims, or ordinary lunatics. Being a charitable sort myself, I'd prefer to think of them as victims of some sort or other, but of course that's hard cheese on the people
they've victimized. From a psychological perspective I'd say "cult-brainwashing victims" is the closest to what the really hardcore ones are, but that's a small minority. Another possibility is to create a whole new category for them, but then someone would have to come up with a name for the category, and "Wikipediots" is too silly-sounding to bring in any serious public-health money.
Anyhoo, this is all theoretical, right?