Durova Offers "Mentoring" Services Options

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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."

Durova does this as a standard practice. She did it with Kohs, and I've seen her do it at least two other times. Which given I dont see everything she does all the live long day indicates that she probably does this as a standard modus operandi.

And Moulton, your analysis is spot-on. She seeks to annihilate anyone who is her intellectual equal. Anyone less, isn't worth the vitriol.

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

Refresh me on that story with a link, please?

Greg

Oh sweet mother of G-d let this not be true. Does anyone know who this poor soul is?

This besides losing Tim H. his post as cong. press office? Sullying his good name?

Oh, I disagree with Durova, Jim62sch, and the others as well. I am inclined to believe they are merely misinformed and misguided, rather than pathologically misanthropic mendactors of misjudgment.

Durova has gotten a kid kicked out of school, ruining his career dreams.
Rather than have any remorse, she considers this to be experience that
makes her qualified to deal with similar situations in the future. If you
try to explain to her that she hurts people, she will call you
condescending, then charge you with spam and harassment.

Now, tell me, how do you interpret that as merely misguided? To me,
that proves she has absolutely no conscience, no ethics, no basic
sense of decency.

Yes, yes, yes. A thousand times yes.

You are probably lucky, Moulton. Getting mentored by Durova would probably
be worse than being banned. Durova is the sort of person who will get a kid
kicked out of school, ruining his career dreams, and accuse you of harassment
and threaten to throw you in jail if you peaceably and privately protest to her
about it.

I agree.

This post has been edited by Disillusioned Lackey: Fri 21st December 2007, 3:43pm

Moulton, your analysis is spot-on. She seeks to annihilate anyone who is her intellectual equal. Anyone less, isn't worth the vitriol.

In the interests of accuracy in attribution, that was Greg's analysis, not mine. Nonetheless, I have known other instances of that remarkable character trait, which evidently traces back to Cain's jealousy of his more accomplished brother.

In the interests of accuracy in attribution, that was Greg's analysis, not mine. Nonetheless, I have known other instances of that remarkable character trait, which evidently traces back to Cain's jealousy of his more accomplished brother.

I thought that was Joshua Zelinsky.

I'm climbing off the ceiling. Sorry. They pissed me off when they turned this into a conversation about Britney Spears. It's bad enough to have to see that kind of crap on CNN. But I probably overreacted.

Then I'm sure the next month or so of news about her sister Jamie Lynn's pregnancy will upset you a whole lot? I saw it as one of the top 12 hits on Google News today.