No, the "N---er, n---er, n---er, n---er... LOL!" post from user "sociopat" was absolutely vichy, in response to the long post from onmyway67 above. That was no spam bot, that was her stirring the pot. It has since been deleted.

I think you have me confused with someone else, I did not use "n...er" to illustrate a point, nor did I participate in the "done" thread.

You should be looking at the Mises.org forums, as the title of this thread suggests. Also, look at her flickr profile, if it still exists. That's where the photo album she compiled and linked to was.

yeah I don't think there should be any doubt that Vichy gave the impression of being the person pictured in her avatar and other photos. Check out dylboz's suggestions (if they're still online); and also, there are several instances of people commenting on her appearance and her replying. This may not technically be lying but it's deception by any reasonable standard, and the truly honest response would be something like "actually, you don't know what I look like because those pictures aren't me."

I dunno man... can't really dig it. It's better than "I'm paranoid," though.

Nope. But as WoW users are culled from the general population there are likely going to be anywhere from 15,000 to 60,000 sociopaths among them. Same stats say that between 4 and 16 people who signed up at Liberating Minds are likely sociopathic. That's the point. Sociopaths are not exotic. They come from a cross section of society and are often highly intelligent and successful people. Generally, they don't even know they're something called 'sociopathic'. They just think the world is full of gullible and stupid people and that it's theirs to exploit. Every normal human instinct you have is vulnerable to being exploited and turned against you, including your sympathy and compassion. It's like vertigo. The rules are simply not the same. Overwhelming better judgement and jamming better instincts by cultivating your belief that that they are charming or entertaining or sympathetic, or that your objections are ridiculous, is part of the game.

I find it deeply useful knowledge, and completely fascinating from an intellectual standpoint.

Sociopathy exists upon a spectrum. This I assert, confident in my abilities to asses.

As far as Vichy goes, she (net persona is how I know this person, so regardless of the typer, the persona - just as the persona you encounter named "blackacidlizzard" - is the one I (we) know, and that persona's gender is female) has added positivity (by my subjective matrix) to nearly every message board I have been on. I have always enjoyed her input.

Well clearly there are those LiMi members who've had more in-depth interaction with the Vichy creature (I think he/she/it would approve such nomenclature), but for those of us with casual thread interaction it is perhaps not even useful to argue whether this someone is sociopathic or not. What impacts are you protecting us from onmyway67?

Please don't take my curiosity as a lack of knowledge on the subject. I merely wish to understand why you've taken the position you have. Though further edumaction is fine of course... How about you state your reasons for such a conclusion and compare them with the DSM? Also, illustrate just what kind of meaningful impact such differentiation should / might / will have on how we proceed from here.