QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Sun 27th March 2011, 8:37pm)
I would personally give the top ratings to Greg and to Daniel Brandt,
because they are dedicated, and because they are intensely hated by
WP's inner circle of toads--to an extent that almost no one else "enjoys".
That was more or less my thinking. The more WMF hates them, the better they must be. Kohs deserves honorable mention and the silver medal, but Brandt and his Hivemind admin RL list has clearly hit them where they're tender. And done so in that ineffably-satisfying "scratch-where-it-itches" way that we recognize as "poetic justice": they have been punished by being forced to gag down a very large dose of their own medicine, hoist by their own petard, etc., etc., choose your own metaphor. Nobody has ever lobbed stones at WMF's glass house, quite like Brandt.
The amazing part of this, as I've said many times, is that WMF has learned NOTHING general from it (and the only specific thing they've learned is not to mess with Brandt). But even that fact says something about THEM. One cannot
punish a person who does not recognize, by reason of total self-centeredness, that they've done anything wrong; the most you can do is
hurt them.
But it sure feels good to the rest of us, to watch.