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yup, that 's how they *become* invisible
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Note that [[sysop vandalism]] and less visible [[developer vandalism]] is also possible. There is no reason to believe that sysops or developers never make an article less useful, or never engage in behaviour that degardes the corpus. | Note that [[sysop vandalism]] and less visible [[developer vandalism]] is also possible. There is no reason to believe that sysops or developers never make an article less useful, or never engage in behaviour that degardes the corpus. | ||
By incorporating vandals as a faction in themselves, one that is the only one whose edits are invisible, we achieve [[reflexive]] [[wiki management]] where no external "mailing list" or "IRC channel" or "special status" is required. | By incorporating vandals as a faction in themselves, one that is the only one whose edits are invisible, we achieve [[reflexive design|reflexive]] [[wiki management]] where no external "mailing list" or "IRC channel" or "special status" is required. | ||
:Huh? How are vandal edits invisible, unless they are deleted?--[[User:Juxo|Juxo]] 22:28, 14 Jul 2004 (EEST) | |||
::That's exactly the point. Any [[faction]] (including [[sysop]]s and other [[troll]]s) can revert/delete vandal edits. The definition of being in this faction is that your edits are invisible. ;-) | |||