Research published in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal identifies a new syndrome that is affecting more and more internet forum users. The syndrome comes in two forms, the worst but rarest of which affects mainly forum moderators. In the common form, users can become prone to asking questions of the wrong people. For instance requesting information from a moderator that only full employees of a company will know.
Doctors are concerned that some moderators are perpetuating the problem by trying to be helpful and trying to answer such questions. This will often bring more outrageous questions, often directed at a single moderator. This moderator can become elevated to 'fount of all knowledge' status in the minds of some users and persistanly bombarded with the same questions which they cannot answer. This has left many forum moderators posting the same mantras over and over again and suffering from severe deja vu.
In the report, doctors thorise that the preponderance of hoax posts on forums leads users to question reality and seek more reassurance from whatever authority figures they can contact. The authors have named the syndrome as "Helge's syndrome", named after one particularly long suffering moderator.
some who deserve life receive death. Others who deserve death receive life. Can you give it to them? Don't be eager to deal out death in judgement, for not even the wise can see all ends.
That is just stupid. It is just more officials scaremongering. When computer monitors were first invented they did the same thing, saying that they produce deadly amounts of radiation. The moderators here are sensible enough to say if they do not know anything about the topic anyway.
Sureal wrote:That is just stupid. It is just more officials scaremongering. When computer monitors were first invented they did the same thing, saying that they produce deadly amounts of radiation. The moderators here are sensible enough to say if they do not know anything about the topic anyway.
~Lonowski~
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