QUOTE(Moulton @ Mon 2nd August 2010, 5:01pm)
QUOTE(Seth Finklesten paraphrases his critics)
Cults are by definition extreme apocalyptic, murderous, or suicidal, organizations. Wikipedia does not fit that definition. Therefore Wikipedia is not a cult.
I have found Wikiculture to be apocalyptic, annihilative, and self-defeating.
I can provide details (and evidence), but I suspect everyone here has already seen it.
When it comes to cult dynamics, early diagnosis is vastly preferable to vain attempts at the post-apoxalyptic cure of souls after the Reign Of Terror (ROT) has already run its course.
So I hope people will excuse us for trying to be as pro-gnostic as possible, but all the early symptoms of cult-think are there.
Jon Awbrey