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| - Dr. Sigmundheimer F. "Siggy" Rhoid, M.D., Ph.D., B.S. (b. May 6, 1961) is an Austrian-American psychiatrist and Yu-Gi-Oh! player who is perhaps the world's foremost authority on internet-related mental illness, particularly those relating to the use of anonymous web-based communities, such as MUDs, MMORPGs, and wikis. Known primarily for his work with wiki users, Rhoid's theories regarding the interpersonal abuse of multi-user anonymous websites of all varieties generally include the following hypotheses:
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| - Dr. Sigmundheimer F. "Siggy" Rhoid, M.D., Ph.D., B.S. (b. May 6, 1961) is an Austrian-American psychiatrist and Yu-Gi-Oh! player who is perhaps the world's foremost authority on internet-related mental illness, particularly those relating to the use of anonymous web-based communities, such as MUDs, MMORPGs, and wikis. Known primarily for his work with wiki users, Rhoid's theories regarding the interpersonal abuse of multi-user anonymous websites of all varieties generally include the following hypotheses:
* Development of the user persona is best understood in terms of irreversible trajectories towards more or less douchebaggy behavior.
* The human brain apparatus cannot comprehend the size of the world, and when presented with a community potentially comprised of the world in toto, subconsciously attempts to artificially "shrink" its world-perception by assuming that most (if not all) of the other members of the community are actually one person.
* Conflicts over content maintained by web-based communities inevitably lead to endless, pointless, time-wasting, self-righteous yammering which only leads to continued, if not expanded, conflict.
* Continued conflict and stress placed on an individual user can exacerbate an existing mental illness, and in some cases, can release inner hostilities that may be manifested as "administrative privileges."
* Neuroses and other mental disturbances caused by the abuse of anonymous multi-user sites and communities can be treated by taking the user's computer away from him and not returning it, ever, even if he or she asks politely. Or begs.
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