Lydiot wrote in Tue May 17, 2016 6:19 pm:Hooray wrote in Tue May 17, 2016 5:44 pm:Which is a little surprising given the recent revelations, i.e. in hindisght, with his background as a writer and his education, we could have expected more thoughtful postings actually.
You have far more faith in humanity than I. I'll give you some kudos for that.
Well, thank you - but actually I was reiterating the previous point, i.e. of treading carefully and looking at the motives of why people team up with others under these circumstances.
For the record, and in case you are unaware of it, the last time this community (and in fact, pretty much the same group of long-timers) spent several weeks (or even months) talking to a really talented contributor, it turned out that thas person was a trained psychologist conducting sociological experiments:
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vitos wrote: I am psychologist with degree in psychology/social psychology.
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My goals was not it that but in some social experiment. If it would went good, then it all could bring results greater than it was in life, and bring real profit and real improvement in real life.
Given Jabberwocky's posting nature and history, and looking at his background, makes you wonder what exactly he is up to, because he is clearly more seasoned in the use of the English language, and language in general, than most of us - including the fgmembers community apparently.
In fact, I have seen PMs where Jabberwocky admitted to other users in private that he was publicly disagreeing, and debating, with Thorsten or me despite knowing exactly that we were right, because he simply enjoyed the debate, i.e. for the sake of having the argument, and fully well knowing that he was wasting our time, feeling that he was "protecting" others while "dealing" with us.
I think you could say that Thorsten and I are rather seasoned debaters around here, but that thought never occurred to us - and it changed the way we perceived him, and the way we dealt with him.
I honestly wonder how many teenagers, or other less experienced community members, would be able to recognize such games and deal with them accordingly.
Personally, I am simply not interested in this kind of manipulative game - and I seriously doubt that Jabberwocky would dare doing that to me in person...