QUOTE(dogbiscuit @ Wed 24th June 2009, 8:46am)
The only way to kill it is to make being involved with it a stigma. In fact, it seems that it more or less is at the moment, people simply do not like admitting in public that they have anything to do with it.
I agree.
To my mind, the best practice at this phase of the game is to construct and publish an accurate and insightful analysis and diagnosis of the project and the participants, and to do so in as professional and credible manner as possible.
The dysfunctionality of the site's governance model is increasingly apparent, as more and more scholars and professionals publish their analyses and studies of WP's anachronistic mobocracy.
The site is dominated by a substantial number of power brokers who manifest some variety of personality disorder, (primarily
Cluster B). This would be the stigmatizing portion of the diagnostic analysis, were it to come from credible and reliable sources.