Jimbo causes Blofeld to quit Options

[thekohser]

I don't know why so many "long-time editors" seem very surprised and indignant to discover that Jimmy Wales is a horrible manager of communities, and that he's basking in success and fame on the thankless labor served up by grunts who don't realize that Jimmy Wales keeps the architecture deliberately labor-intensive, because it's so addictive.

Good luck on the "outside", Blofeld!

[Dr. Blofeld]

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. If I need to stop editing or want to, I really have no problems with stopping. At the end of the day it is just a website so talking about me having this incurable disease is absurd. Yes , I agree that I've spent way too much time editing wikipedia but I have many days when I am very enthusiastic and probably overedit and others, especially recently where don't really care about wikipedia and I've dedicated more time to learning jazz, spanish and working out. In fact I'm sure if you did an "analysis" of my editing history you'd find my edit count and number of article creations way down on what it was in 2007-2008.

I really don't think it is important what Jimbo thinks. 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. Most of the time I try to focus on what editing the site gains for me as a resource, not what Jimbo is getting paid...





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"Wikipedia could be a significant factor in a closed-loop of repressed self-loathing, which isn't healthy at all - even (or maybe especially) for a narcissist."

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...

[Somey]

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..."?

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.

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!)