Faction

"I'll find a day to massacre them all, and raze their faction and their family..." - William Shakespeare, in Titus Andronicus

One good definition of a faction is "those who disagree violently with others, but only non-violently with each other."

A faction competes with other factions, and has a tendency to view some things the same way - it may formally cooperate or list some values or principles. It has its own view of the glossary. Any funded trolls advancing a view implies there must be a faction with that view - maybe not one that Consumerium:Itself can see.

Often it is assigned a colour on the political spectrum.

Factions exist to acknowledge, limit, and channel various aspects of the self-interested fork problem. By anticipating factionally defined terms in the Consumerium License, we make it easier for factions to define their own Consortium license as a sub-license of our own parametric license.

See Talk:faction for extensive discussions. It will be hard to agree on one definition of faction, so please review glossary in detail to see what you think of those generic ideas, and how a faction might define a lot of things differently.

See also Metaweb:faction. Consumerium has more need to identify factions than Metaweb, so we may lead them in this regard.