Wiki witchhunt

A wiki witchhunt is a wiki idiom for an attempt to assign some alleged and collective identity. Here we do that with a faction, and it's civilized. On many large public wikis it is a silly sysop power structure game that reflects other power structure biases and idiocies.

According to Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales, Wiki witchunts are not supposed occur. [1]

We basically hope it never happens here, but sadly our hopes have been dashed: supposedly-new trolls whose trolling displeases known trolls find themselves associated (against their will, some claim) with the Wikipedia power structure of sysop vandals. This is based admittedly on limited proof: amateur psychiatry and (more significant) the mindless repetition of known falsehoods like the already-discredited article on Craig Hubley that not even Wikipedia's quite low standards will admit. Also, it has not so far involved technological escalation, i.e. no IP blocks, so dialogue can continue: the newcomers can prove themselves to actually have New Troll point of view instead of the very old Sysop Vandal point of view which they dredge up out of old article histories and try to present as being fact.

We do not invite comment on Wikipedia policy except insofar as it degrades the GFDL corpus as a whole. Such issues in general should be discussed there not here! Almost all issues we can imagine that are relevant to wiki management and large public wikis have already been covered here, so, we don't need any more detail on that subject. Even the trolls are done ranting about it. For now!