Crocker's Rules: Difference between revisions
restoring neutral commentary on the behaviour that adopting Crocker's Rules de-authorizes: offending and then whining about others offending you
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(restoring neutral commentary on the behaviour that adopting Crocker's Rules de-authorizes: offending and then whining about others offending you) |
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'''Crocker's Rules''' are named after [[Lee Daniel Crocker]]." He was once active on [[Wikipedia]] and was probably partially responsible for its early [[troll-friendly]] policy. | '''Crocker's Rules''' are named after [[Lee Daniel Crocker]]." He was once active on [[Wikipedia]] and was probably partially responsible for its early [[troll-friendly]] policy. | ||
Any [[faction]] can adopt these '''Rules''' with respect to internal faction conflict, or declare them to apply to comments directed to the faction itself. | Any [[faction]] can adopt these '''Rules''' with respect to internal faction conflict, or declare them to apply to comments directed to the faction itself. | ||
The specific behaviour that is disabled is offending others freely and then claiming sanction or privelege because they have offended you. | :[[Trolls]] do so by default, by disregarding others' feelings explicitly in their communications, after which they effectively authorized these '''Rules'''. And, according to them, everyone else is better off for it! | ||
The specific behaviour that is disabled is offending others freely and then claiming sanction or privelege because they have offended you. A whole [[faction]] that adopts '''Crocker's Rules''' does not allow its adherents to complain about rudeness, offense, etc., externally to the faction regardless of how displeased they are. They may however still complain about [[vandalism]] including [[sysop vandalism]], whether rationalized by mere rudeness or not. | |||