Troll Timeline
Consumerium timeline
- Earliest troll murmurings on various blogs like Greenpeace, wanting a way to link barcode to NGO opinions at point of purchase
- Adbusters proposes a program of this kind
- March - Consumerium starts
- summer - glossary and Consumerium Concepts emerge
- September - discussions on how to change mediawiki to support Consumerium begin
- October - types of countries, pricing, and use of Simple English to send buy signals
- March - trollist ideology spreads, notably via Wikipedia red faction
- May - faction model begins to spread, notably to OurAnswer
- detailed critique of Wikimedia corruption to guide Consumerium Governance Organization to avoid the same mistakes, many of them obvious
- July - some design proposals and requirements statements start to be good enough even for trolls