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linkhocus Post Habits Analysis
The Passive-Aggressive Patient
Submitted by Schroeder on Sat, 2007-11-03 12:29.This is a classic description of hocomania first written by poster BobSmith at early-retirement.org but now found at TMF. LINK
When I worked in a psychiatric setting I was on a treatment team consisting of physicians and other professionals. We always had one or two patients who behaved in a "passive-aggressive" manner. These folks consumed countless hours of our time. They irritated and frustrated others in countless small ways, but always stayed within the boundaries of socially acceptable behavior. They tended to be indirectly manipulative and would needle and prod their target repeatedly; always knowing what buttons to push. They tried to get the targeted person to explode. The passive-aggressive patient almost never crossed the line. They were usually very subtle, and almost ingratiatingly polite on the surface. When their target reacted in anger, the passive-aggressive patient would feign innocence and place the target into a position where it was almost impossible to explain why they reacted so strongly. They came off sounding petty and childish, which is just what the passive-aggressive patient intended. To the uninvolved observer, it often appeared that the person who blew up was overreacting, and the person behaving in a passive-aggressive style was a "victim." There was nothing more difficult than dealing with these folks, and I can recall adding up the hourly pay of all the people sitting around the table with me and thinking, "There's over $1000/hour worth of experienced and highly trained brain power sitting here trying to outmaneuver this passive-aggressive patient with a 6th grade education, and we're stumped".
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Wow. It's been a long time
Submitted by sgeeeee on Mon, 2007-02-26 01:34.Wow. It's been over 6 months since I entered anything here. It's interesting what I was thinking about M* and a hocus banning back in August. I didn't make a lot of predictions in my previous blog entry, but reading it today in light of what eventually happened at M*, it seems pretty consistent.
So now you've got to wonder what happens next, and I haven't got a clue. I can't imagine hocus changing his spots (yellow spots). I have to believe that he still sees himself as a lonely, self-riteous martyr telling the truth but being stymied by the evil Goons. Yet I don't see where else he can go to deliver this delusional message. I keep expecting to hear about a late night hocus infomercial on cable access channels. I might break down and invest in cable if he does that.
The Deep End?
Submitted by syke on Thu, 2006-04-20 17:37.This is maybe a question best suited for arrette, but others can help too. There seem to be definied periods of hoco-posting. I'm not talking about his cyclical mania, I'm talking more about his descent into full blown lunacy. It seems to me there have been at least four distinct period of hocomania:
Period 1. Hocus makes long winded but generally helpful posts.
Period 2. Hocus gets confused on the SWR issue.
Period 3. Hocus gets paranoid, thinks intercst is out to get him.
Period 4. Hocus starts telling wildly delusion stories. Death threats, "inventing" a data-based SWR tool in the 1990s, Scott Burns agreeing with him, etc.
TMF word count for 1999-2002 of hocus posts
Submitted by arrete on Thu, 2006-04-20 11:43.This is actually BigMoneyAdminJim posting as arrete because I think she deserves all the credit she can get for this hard work.
arrete has documented all hocus posts and annotated interesting posts for TMF REHP 1999 through 2002. Info is in attached XLS spreadsheet readable with Excel or OpenOffice.org's Calc.
This is an update to the previous spreadsheet and includes its 1999-2000 data. See this comment for a preview of what type of data is in the spreadsheet.
UPDATE: Replaced file with correct years in dates. UPDATE 2: Corrected a few more dates.
Subjective Analysis Tracking Post
Submitted by BigMoneyJim on Thu, 2006-04-13 15:51.I'm starting to see posts on REHP forum describing old hocoposts (early signs of procrastination, low recs on post-heard-round-the-world day) and thinking "I want that cataloged here", but things aren't quite set up to fully implement it yet. So I'm making this post to link to those comments for later reference.
I'm not asking for people to post those kind of posts here; I'm working on a way to incorporate these kind of descriptions into a voting/rec'ing/moderating system where you can vote/rec/mod on this site content that is actually on other sites and then read/sort based on which articles are more funny, which are more useful, which are more delusional, etc.. It's a core goal for me as I have in mind using the same structure at mylectern.com for useful ER posts/articles once I get the system working here.
ERforum hocoposts 2003-2005
Submitted by BigMoneyJim on Thu, 2006-04-13 12:01.hocus post spreadsheet for his posts as hocus on early-retirement.org .
msg ID, topic ID, msg link, date, time, datetime
No wordcounts yet, and no annotations like arrete's sheet has. But this may still be useful for date/time regression analysis.
TMF word count for 1999-2000 of hocus posts
Submitted by arrete on Wed, 2006-04-12 10:38.post number, Date, number of words, recs, comments
