Durova Offers "Mentoring" Services Options

[Pwok]

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This post has been edited by Pwok: Thu 20th December 2007, 8:41am

[Moulton]

Actually, the idea of having a mentor at all (let alone Durova) struck me as rather odd for an enterprise that had as its goal to write a respectable encyclopedia.

But having a mentor makes perfectly good sense if one views Wikipedia as an MMPORG.

And whether she was any good at it or not, Durova did fancy herself as an expert on gaming the system. She even wrote blog articles about it.

[AB]

And whether she was any good at it or not, Durova did fancy herself as an expert on gaming the system. She even wrote blog articles about it.

Oh, she's fantastic at gaming the system. She can harass a person
and get them blocked for harassment. Absolutely brilliant!

But is that really what you want to learn from a mentor?

No, me neither.

[LamontStormstar]

Oh, she's fantastic at gaming the system. She can harass a person
and get them blocked for harassment. Absolutely brilliant!

But is that really what you want to learn from a mentor?

No, me neither.

That was my point with the Spears analogy.


Although, how does Durova harass a person and get them blocked for harassment?


This post has been edited by LamontStormstar: Fri 21st December 2007, 3:28am

[Moulton]

Although, how does Durova harass a person and get them blocked for harassment?

I have a theory about how that might be done.

When I was engaged in an otherwise congenial e-mail exchange with Durova, she suddenly and unexpectedly declared that she no longer wished to continue our conversation, indicating that she would consider any further traffic to be harrassment. That stance left no room for an expression of perplexity as to what had triggered her dramatic and unexplained reversal.

Something similar to that happened in my E-Mail conversation with Jim62sch.

[thekohser]

When I was engaged in an otherwise congenial e-mail exchange with Durova, she suddenly and unexpectedly declared that she no longer wished to continue our conversation, indicating that she would consider any further traffic to be harrassment.

I believe this happens shortly after the point that they discover you are their intellectual equal or superior. At that point, their power position is untenable, so they abort the conversation and disengage in a way that suggests any further action on your part will be equated with that of a socially-maladjusted derelict.

I got this type of feedback once from Charles Matthews, after I e-mailed him with a reasoned comment that suggested his stubbornly incorrect interpretation of the facts surrounding the Arch Coal fiasco was "some form of mental problem bordering on sociopathy."

He replied: "I want to hear nothing more from you. Clear?"

End of debate between intellectual equals, I guess.

Durova has gotten a kid kicked out of school, ruining his career dreams.

Refresh me on that story with a link, please?

Greg

This post has been edited by thekohser: Fri 21st December 2007, 3:21pm