QUOTE(The Joy @ Wed 21st November 2007, 6:13pm)
Hard security doesn't work. In this case with Durova and !!, it has caused more harm than good.
The thing about Durova, to me, is that I
don't think it's inevitable that someone in such an environment would eventually pop up and attempt to set him/herself up as a self-contained "investigatory" entity. A lot of other things are probably inevitable - hard-liners, drama queens, people who threaten suicide if they don't get their way, etc. - but not that.
This is a unique pathology that seems specific to this one person. This angle that she pushes, that she's a "super-sleuth" and that she "trains other admins" in doing "complex investigations," is just a classic narcissist tactic of devising a means of proving non-expendability by claiming special knowledge or ability that is, in fact, completely bogus. But the genius of it - the
sheer deviousness - is that she's taking advantage of the fact that Wikipedia does have real, non-imaginary critics, people like us, some of whom could legitimately be considered
enemies, and anyone who points out her total lame-assed incompetence can thus be simply dismissed as one of the "enemy." And as we've seen, she/they only need one or two examples that can be applied to all of their critics/enemies as a class in order for this to work, at least as far as the acolytes are concerned.
But I'm just stating the obvious here, I suppose.