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    '''[[Developer]] usurpation''' is when a [[usurper]] with technical skills or technological access that the ordinary [[sysop]] doesn't have, over-rides the [[sysop power structure]] to put [[block IP]] measures or other restrictions in place that make it impossible for the [[sysop]] to undo what the developer does.
    '''[[Developer]] usurpation''' is a pheomonen in [[real estate]] in which a developer puts pressure on local government to use its power of [[eminent domain]] to reapportion land ownership without just consideration of the public good.


    This is a power play of the most extreme kind, and strongly frowned upon even when it is done under the direct order of a [[GodKing]].  It makes it obvious that there is a [[power structure]] that is quite different from that which is "negotiated" in the "virtual community" - and in fact proves that there is no such community or community-managed space, but merely something like a corporate shopping mall, where presence is at the sufference of security guards.
    [[Corruption]] and [[bribery]] are sometimes involved.

    Revision as of 01:50, 15 January 2004

    Developer usurpation is a pheomonen in real estate in which a developer puts pressure on local government to use its power of eminent domain to reapportion land ownership without just consideration of the public good.

    Corruption and bribery are sometimes involved.