QUOTE(tarantino @ Thu 14th May 2009, 7:13pm)
This is funny.
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Kooks, on the other hand are motivated to post a lot, and would readily respond to calls on Wikipedia Review and other sites to come to VC to take over a Wikipedia thread. (Sheesh, we even have Daniel Brandt here. Somehow I doubt he posted because he's normally a VC lurker.)
I think that people who spend a great deal of time writing
Sailor Moon FAQs and
anime fan fiction are a little kooky.
Arromdee is actually
smarter than he looks. Or at least with a
better picture he looks smarter than he used to look. In fact, the
résumé he deleted says that he has a PhD in computer science. So we know that he's smart enough to tell the difference between a one and a zero.
(About that PhD, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt, since we can no longer ask Essjay to check it out for us.)
But his comment was certainly stupid. With five minutes of research, he might have figured out that the reason I read NYB on VC is because NYB announced it, more than once, on that "kook" site Wikipedia Review. And believe it or not, some of the "kooks" here are actually a hell of a lot smarter than Arromdee. I can't write C-language code as well as Arromdee (but I get by), and I don't read comic books and don't follow anime, but at least I'm smart enough to know that I am, generally speaking, smarter than he is in a lot of other areas.