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]

@Eric. You think I'm this OCD freak who can't bare to live without wikipedia. Well I'm formed an opinion of here that you Eric clearly have issues. You fit the bill of somebody suffering from Autism or Asperger syndrome in that you have the inability to treat others as you'd yourself like to be treated. All you do here is bad mouth people and find it very difficult it seems to actually communicate with people. You come across as a bully which reveals much inadequacy about your strength of character; it clearly makes you feel better about yourself to take swipes at others and mock them. While I know there are many decent editors on here (and with good musical tastes) who comment on this site because they really care about the running of wikipedia or are reasonable people, I find it incredibly double standards that you are passing me off as some sort of compulsive freak when between you and Somey you can make over 15,000 posts on this site which is arguably not much more than a forum for complaining. What I find amusing here is that you two think you are too "cool" to edit wikipedia or to say a good word about the sad people who edit it and bad mouth those who have genuinely been passionate for increasing its scope but are clearly obviously mentally disturbed by something which happened in the past on wikipedia which obsesses you enough to keep on posting here in a disgruntled manner day after day. If you truly did not care about wikipedia or thought you were above it you would not comment and be compelled to do so. If you truly could not give a shit about wikipedia, Jimbo or any of its pathetic contributors why do you give a shit to spend so much time commenting here? What motivates you to post here then? What exactly do you have to gain on here notching up 15,000 comments between you and being so unpleasant other than having some serious personality flaws and inability to communicate with others in a half decent manner without attacking them or being sarcastic?

I've edited wikipedia because I am a very creative person and see big potential in it as a resource. However much certain people here seem to detest wikipedia, it does have potential. Sure, I've created lots of sub stubs at times when I've perhaps been overly passionate about the project and too enthusiastic that others will develop them article as (even I it would seem) don't have the time to write them all, but I've also created a lot of worthwhile content which I'm proud to have contributed. My relationship with wikipedia believe it or not blows hot and cold and actually I find it very hard to actually stay on the website for too long without going elsewhere. Some days I love wikipedia to bits, other days I really wonder why we bother and it seems incredibly bland... Given that I work out first thing in the morning for at least an hour and have RL things to do in the morning I generally do not even log into wikipedia until late morning or midday and I rarely am on the internet beyond 11pm (with the exception of today). So even if potentially I was editing wikipedia for 12 hours or even an extreme 16 hours you'll find a lot of time gaps between my edits when I get bored and you'll often see half hour or more between my edits when I'm not actually on the website even if you look at the overall day and it seems I've been there all the time. Completely untrue. I actually don't read very much on the site because although I've read some excellent content, I generally come across such shitty articles in browsing that it prompts me to edit again or (more often) causes me to despair at how much work needs doing and try to forget about it. Think what you like about me, but anybody who truly knows me is aware that I am a very creative person and a passionate one which is what drives me. I'm not OCD, or if I am then you suffer from Asperger's. That true? I agree I've spent way too much time editing wikipedia and should spend more time on me and developing more projects to benefit me personally. But no amount of you ranting on about me is going to change my interests. You have no right to tell me what I should be doing or cite whatever musical hobbies and other interests I might have as being part of some "disease". As for you being this "successful businessman" Eric and wikipedia contributors "suffering", I hardly get the impression of you having much success if that blog is all you have to brag about. Maybe you are more successful than the nature of that blog would let on... But its not my business what you do with your time and efforts in the same way it is none of your business what I actually do and how I spent my time. But all I know is that however much time you believe I spend editing wikipedia I have time to devote to other interests and to get by financially. Anyway I'm done with posting on here.....

[Somey]

If you truly could not give a shit about wikipedia, Jimbo or any of its pathetic contributors why do you give a shit to spend so much time commenting here? What motivates you to post here then? What exactly do you have to gain on here notching up 15,000 comments between you and being so unpleasant other than having some serious personality flaws and inability to communicate with others in a half decent manner without attacking them or being sarcastic?

Where did you get the idea that I/we "don't give a shit" about Wikipedia, Jimbo, et al? I think you're making that up. If we didn't think it was such a menace to world culture, civilized discourse, education, and society in general, then maybe we would have stopped bothering long ago. "We're here because we care"...

As for you being this "successful businessman" Eric and wikipedia contributors "suffering", I hardly get the impression of you having much success if that blog is all you have to brag about.

I suspect you're only saying that because you don't appreciate all the hard work that goes into building popular guitar-distortion stomp-boxes with all-vacuum-tube circuitry that are covered with vaguely obscene cartoon imagery.

Regardless, this is "classic" stuff, reaction-wise. I'm sorry to have to say it, but a non-narcissist understands the difference between one or two people in a group bashing him and everyone in the group bashing him, and (not coincidentally) that's how the non-narcissist copes with being bashed. There's less need to bolster the ego-facade because the ego-facade isn't based on what other people think, at least not as much, nor is it based on a self-image of near-perfection supported by elaborately exaggerated claims of ability and experience.

You're probably not a bad person, maybe not even close - but I believe that if you had those things, you would never have gotten involved in Wikipedia in the first place, or certainly not to anywhere near the extent you have.