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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>A &#039;&#039;&#039;[[troll-friendly]] offer&#039;&#039;&#039; is a specific offer to help a [[troll]] in a struggle with the [[sysop power structure]]. It is not an offer to help a troll in [[conflicts between users]], if no ability to subvert a technological power granted to the sysop and not the troll is involved. A true troll-friendly offer is an offer to actively subvert the accountability system of a [[large public wiki]], say by entering [[troll text]] under one&#039;s own name, so it is untraceable &quot;who wrote it&quot;, which would defeat almost any [[witch-hunt]] and in fact make it very hard to prove without much additional documentation that the person who wrote the text had actually intended to release it via the [[GFDL]]. For instance the person who received this guarantee could lose it, delete it from email or their own wiki, or simply refuse to help the [[wiki owner]] fend off a [[copyright violation]] lawsuit by the original author...<br /> <br /> For all these and other good reasons, it is far better to make the wiki so [[troll-friendly]] that no one ever makes such a special offer, and there is no incentive to subvert the tracking system or encourage conspiracies against the [[sysop power structure]].</div>

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