Wikipedia Editor Says Site's Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide (vice.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A longtime Wikipedia editor wrote an email to a large public mailing list Tuesday, saying he was contemplating suicide due to online abuse by his fellow Wikipedians. "Nobody on Wikipedia seems to be kind," he wrote. "You are all so busy power tripping that you forget there is a real, live person on the other side." He lamented that obstructionism by other editors stopped him from contributing to the site's "great mission -- one I feel so keenly." The email was sent to the Wikimedia-L mailing list, which is one of the largest community-run Wikimedia mailing lists and has hundreds of subscribers. The editor was upset after an ongoing disagreement with other editors on the "talk" pages of an article about a local politician. The debate devolved into name-calling, the editor wrote, and eventually he was completely banned from editing the site he had devoted so much time to.

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We don't know how to be nice.

[jellomizer]

This is shown by the support for Trump.
There had been a gradual decrease in empowerment in one form or another. Back in the old days there was a well defined class structure.
White higher than Black, Men greater than Women, now this is going away, and some people think it is because of Political Correctness is taking over. It isn't it is because we as a culture are trying to flatten the class structure. So now the failing White Male can no longer go and put his power over a successful black woman. So now he needs to realize that he is a loser, or just blame society for his problems, because he now finds himself in a position where he deserves to be.
Now the internet where there is anonymity means he can insult and try to place his power over people just by spamming, where there is no real recourse for such behavior.