Developer usurpation - Revision history

142.177.75.109: both are legitimate definitions

2004-01-16T21:57:25Z

both are legitimate definitions

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	'''[[Developer]] usurpation''' is a pheomonen in [[real estate]] in which a developer puts pressure on local government to use its power of [[eminent domain]] to reapportion land ownership without just consideration of the public good.		'''[[Developer]] usurpation''' is a pheomonen in [[real estate]] in which a developer puts pressure on local government to use its power of [[eminent domain]] to reapportion land ownership without just consideration of the public good.

	[[Corruption]] and [[bribery]] are sometimes involved.		In a [[wiki]], the equivalent is when a [[usurper]] with technical skills or technological access that the ordinary [[sysop]] doesn't have, over-rides the [[sysop power structure]] to put [[block IP]] measures or other restrictions in place that make it impossible for the [[sysop]] to undo what the developer does. This reapportions user attention to suit the developer, over-riding the [[due process]].

			This is a power play of the most extreme kind, and strongly frowned upon even when it is done under the direct order of a [[GodKing]]. It makes it obvious that there is a [[power structure]] that is quite different from that which is "negotiated" in the "virtual community" - and in fact proves that there is no such community or community-managed space, but merely something like a corporate shopping mall, where presence is at the sufference of security guards.

			[[Corruption]] and [[bribery]] are sometimes involved, in either the real estate or wiki version of this phenomena.

Tin Filo: Clarify

2004-01-15T01:50:57Z

Clarify

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	'''[[Developer]] usurpation''' is ~~when~~ a [[~~usurper~~]] ~~with technical skills or technological access that the ordinary [[sysop]] doesn't have, over-rides the [[sysop~~ power ~~structure]] to put~~ [[~~block IP]] measures or other restrictions in place that make it impossible for the [[sysop~~]] to ~~undo what~~ the ~~developer does~~.		'''[[Developer]] usurpation''' is a pheomonen in [[real estate]] in which a developer puts pressure on local government to use its power of [[eminent domain]] to reapportion land ownership without just consideration of the public good.

	~~This is a power play of the most extreme kind, and strongly frowned upon even when it is done under the direct order of a~~ [[~~GodKing~~]]~~. It makes it obvious that there is a~~ [[~~power structure~~]] that is quite different from that which is "negotiated" in the "virtual community" - and in fact proves that there is no such community or community-managed space, but merely something like a corporate shopping mall, where presence is at the sufference of security guards.		[[Corruption]] and [[bribery]] are sometimes involved.

24.48.188.50: Reverted

2004-01-15T01:37:38Z

Reverted

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	~~Bwahahahah~~		'''[[Developer]] usurpation''' is when a [[usurper]] with technical skills or technological access that the ordinary [[sysop]] doesn't have, over-rides the [[sysop power structure]] to put [[block IP]] measures or other restrictions in place that make it impossible for the [[sysop]] to undo what the developer does.

			This is a power play of the most extreme kind, and strongly frowned upon even when it is done under the direct order of a [[GodKing]]. It makes it obvious that there is a [[power structure]] that is quite different from that which is "negotiated" in the "virtual community" - and in fact proves that there is no such community or community-managed space, but merely something like a corporate shopping mall, where presence is at the sufference of security guards.

Tim Starling at 00:54, 15 January 2004

2004-01-15T00:54:45Z

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	'''[[Developer]] usurpation''' is when a [[usurper]] with technical skills or technological access that the ordinary [[sysop]] doesn't have, over-rides the [[sysop power structure]] to put [[block IP]] measures or other restrictions in place that make it impossible for the [[sysop]] to undo what the developer does.		Bwahahahah

	This is a power play of the most extreme kind, and strongly frowned upon even when it is done under the direct order of a [[GodKing]]. It makes it obvious that there is a [[power structure]] that is quite different from that which is "negotiated" in the "virtual community" - and in fact proves that there is no such community or community-managed space, but merely something like a corporate shopping mall, where presence is at the sufference of security guards.

142.177.8.70: rare event - only Tim Starling seems to have ever done this in the mediawiki world, it's a good reason to watch him carefully and exclude him from Consumerium

2004-01-14T14:48:41Z

rare event - only Tim Starling seems to have ever done this in the mediawiki world, it's a good reason to watch him carefully and exclude him from Consumerium

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'''[[Developer]] usurpation''' is when a [[usurper]] with technical skills or technological access that the ordinary [[sysop]] doesn't have, over-rides the [[sysop power structure]] to put [[block IP]] measures or other restrictions in place that make it impossible for the [[sysop]] to undo what the developer does.

This is a power play of the most extreme kind, and strongly frowned upon even when it is done under the direct order of a [[GodKing]]. It makes it obvious that there is a [[power structure]] that is quite different from that which is "negotiated" in the "virtual community" - and in fact proves that there is no such community or community-managed space, but merely something like a corporate shopping mall, where presence is at the sufference of security guards.