24.224.172.198: factions can be helpful

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factions can be helpful

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A '''factional point of view''' emerges when a [[tendency]] to see things a certain way becomes more than one of many [[multiple point of view]] but has the active alliance, loyalty and support of a particular group of people committed to that view and only that view. When [[factionally-defined term]]s come to be seen as real by such a group, they may find other factions incomprehensible or consider them to lack [[moral goodness]].

Advocates of [[extreme standardization]] often consider [[factionalism]] "bad", but no democracy exists on Earth without multiple competing political parties, so the evidence is otherwise. One-party states tend to be stagnant and fail, and to become unified with the bureaucracy. The same will be true of mechanisms within a [[healthy buying infrastructure]] like [[Consumerium itself]]. From time to time, the power structure must change.

While a faction can [[fork off]] completely (hopefully with a peaceful [[interwiki]] agreement for [[mutual ethical trolling]] of the "original" wiki or project), the longer it can be accomodated within a project usually the better. Extremely successful projects like those of [[Wikimedia Foundation]] have high tolerance for factional points of view if properly marked and if not presented as universally agreed. Some mechanisms [[Consumerium itself]] might consider:

*A [[faction license]] may specify different conditions for using code or [[open content]] for a particular faction, one that will encourage contribution or correction from that faction
*A [[faction tag]] might be applied to indicate information stated in [[factionally-defined term]]s that could be neutralized or at least defined, or to users who are demonstrating adamant loyalty to a particular faction or one of the "four gs" [[golf]], [[gold]], a [[GodKing]] or [[Global warming promotion society]]
*[[Distrust]] and [[factional rank]] mechanisms so that approval of one faction can be discounted (or even entirely reversed as default disapproval) of an opposed faction - a simple start to which would be the ability to invert rankings from particular users whom one deems to be loyal to a [[mistrust]]ed faction.

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24.224.172.198: factions can be helpful