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[[Troll]]s tend to challenge prevailing ideas about trust - on [[large public wiki]]s they very often succeed in reversing people's beliefs about reputation and trustworthiness, by using a sort of [[scientific method]] of baiting [[sysop]]s. This works quite reliably and may bring about [[regime change]]. | [[Troll]]s tend to challenge prevailing ideas about trust - on [[large public wiki]]s they very often succeed in reversing people's beliefs about reputation and trustworthiness, by using a sort of [[scientific method]] of baiting [[sysop]]s. This works quite reliably and may bring about [[regime change]]. | ||
In response to 18th century trolls, who created the French Revolution and American Revolution, [[governance organization]]s began to use [[distrust]] more explicitly, to prevent trust from becoming too centralized. This is probably what the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] should do on day one, instead of repeating all of political evolution as [[Wikipedia]] is doomed to do, wasting years trying to deny that [[politics as usual]] is also inevitable and that [[factionalism]] is probably good too, when it's correctly supported and each element of the [[political spectrum]] has their own role & [[faction]] to protect [[common interests]]. | |||
A [[legal trust]] like a [[patent pool]] is a different question entirely. | A [[legal trust]] like a [[patent pool]] is a different question entirely. | ||
See [[w:trust]] for a more general discussion of both ideas of trust. | See [[w:trust]] for a more general discussion of both ideas of trust. | ||