QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Wed 24th February 2010, 10:37pm)
Judging
from AN/I, they all think Herostratus was "just joking around". Ho ho ho.
I'm probably just stating the obvious here, but the thing about jokes of that nature is that some people will exaggerate their actual situation using the time-honored
reductio ad absurdem technique, in order to deflect suspicion while still retaining the sense that they're actually being honest with other people. He seems to have taken this considerably further with the current version of his user page... I don't want to discourage WP'ers from trying to display a sense of humor, but the fact remains that he curtailed his WP activity significantly from June 2007, going from roughly a hundred edits per month to fewer than ten, and in some months only one or two. There are funnier ways to explain that which don't involve mention of involuntary computer-use restrictions, particularly when you consider that this is the "founder" of the (now-defunct?) "
Pedophilia Article Watch."
This comment from 2006 is a good example of what was his general approach to the issue of "welcoming" pedophiles on Wikipedia - he was, and probably still is, all for it. Seriously, this is clearly not someone WP should want as an admin - I'm not saying they should ban him (though many would, including me), but
admin rights? Come on, WP, figure this out for once. I mean, Everyking's position on this is bad enough, but Herostratus' is far more, uh,
you know.