QUOTE(Sxeptomaniac @ Mon 1st August 2011, 6:48pm)
QUOTE(chrisoff @ Mon 1st August 2011, 2:54pm)
And isn't it frightening that arbcom is engaging in psychiatric analysis?
Why would it be frightening? It doesn't matter if the guy's a real psychologist/psychiatrist or not, he's got no more or less power than any other random person on the internet, other than being having a bit of power on WP.
Really. Why does that scare you? Do you have some kind of deep-seated fear of internet strangers judging you, or is it that they claim to be psychiatrists, even though it has absolutely no bearing on what they can do?
The scary part is this pseudo-psychiatrist has power over the fate of wikipedia editors by being an arb, and even more power because the arbs solicit his flaky "psychiatric advice" and appear to give it credence.
Now granted this is all a game, but you don't think there are real people behind these screen names?
And Malice's leaked emails shows how flaky their thinking is and how they give preference to certain editors. Oh, and also, how much they just plain gossip, while unfortunately having power over people's ability to edit the encyclopaedia "that anyone can edit."
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