Thread:User talk:Kephir/PB& JP89

While I certainly agree that PBP can be very annoying and full of... himself, I don't think your current way of responding is a good idea. It's bad enough to have him whining about trivialities- do you really want to give him verifiable harassment and even abuse for ammunition?

You have a lot in common with Equinox, who is also a tremendous asset to Wiktionary (the best ever with English-language entries, as far as I'm concerned), but is, like you, very thin-skinned in dealing with stupidity. He was so obsessive over Luciferwildcat that he ended up doing something really stupid and getting de-sysopped for a while.

LW, like Pass a Method, was a good illustration of the blind spot Wiktionary has in dealing with sincere incompetence- PBP can't hold a candle to him with respect to sheer stupidity and bad lexical judgment. I personally believe he only lasted as long as he did because of discomfort with the abuse he received from people like Dick Laurent early on. PBP is only mediocre as an editor (he's improved, some), but is the worst I've ever seen as far as Dunning-Kruger effect-fueled self-righteousness in discussions.

At any rate, your current course of action is likely to result in your being de-sysopped, and PBP still being around to crow about it- do you really want that?