QUOTE(Dr. Blofeld @ Tue 8th February 2011, 2:06pm)
What I think you are missing here Somey is that I actually choose to edit wikipedia because I want to see it improved and move towards certain topics which I think we should cover and get away from focusing on US culture.
Surely you'll forgive us for thinking there's a reason for your astonishingly extensive editing (and stub-creation) activity that goes beyond mere "wanting to improve..."?
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What infuriated me was the way he has never shown support yet was quick to pass me off as a "troll". Sort of a kick in the teeth really.
But do you know why he did that? I believe I do, and if so, it has very little to do with the quality of your WP contributions, perceived or otherwise.
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Somey. You really have a strange perception..... Sure I like people to approve of things I do and to make myself feel that I'm doing something worthwhile. If I was really a "self-loathing narcissist" I think wikipedia would be the last website I'd turn to...
IMO there's really no such thing as a "self-loathing narcissist." Once you turn to self-loathing, you cease to be a narcissist - sure, there are people who would argue that nearly any combination of psychological characteristics are possible within such a broad classification, but I'm not one of them.
Bearing that in mind, my point was that if you're a narcissist, with all that entails (craving praise and attention; ascribing powers and knowledge to oneself that are at least partially imaginary; inability to handle criticism; inaccurately invoking authority/history as being "on your side," etc.), you can eventually get to be so beaten down by things like social rejection and harsh peer criticism that you just
snap - your ego-facade crumbles, you might even have a kind of nervous breakdown, and you can become very depressed as a result. True, it's less likely to happen as a result of Wikipedian interaction than as a result of problems at a real-life job or among one's immediate family, because the personal stakes are so much lower. But it does occasionally happen - we've
seen it happen.
This is why I'm rooting for you to get out (of WP) and stay out. This website we're on here, WR, is actually a healthier place for you than Wikipedia is, even with all the people who think you're a general-purpose menace. (Admittedly though, that's not saying much!) (IMG:
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