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"I'll find a day to massacre them all, and raze their '''faction''' and their family..." - William Shakespeare, in Titus Andronicus | "I'll find a day to massacre them all, and raze their '''faction''' and their family..." - William Shakespeare, in Titus Andronicus | ||
One good [[user-land]] definition of a '''faction''' is "those who disagree violently with others, but only non-violently with each other." | One good [[user-land]] definition of a '''faction''' is "those who disagree violently with others, but only non-violently with each other." | ||
In [[wiki management]], a '''faction''' is a '''mandatory clique''' to deal with [[alleged and collective identity]] problems that can't otherwise be sorted out without serious [[privacy]] problems, e.g. authorizing [[outing]]. | In [[wiki management]], a '''faction''' is a '''mandatory clique''' to deal with [[alleged and collective identity]] problems that can't otherwise be sorted out without serious [[privacy]] problems, e.g. authorizing [[outing]]. | ||
Factions already exist as a group of users sharing a single account or using [[anonymous proxy]] services to reuse [[IP number]]s and appear to be just one persistent [[troll]] or something. This can actually work better for some things than any [[permission-based model]], but it gives an edge to those who have figured out how to do it reliably. It also makes it hard for any limits to be put on such activity. | Factions already exist as a group of users sharing a single account or using [[anonymous proxy]] services to reuse [[IP number]]s and appear to be just one persistent [[troll]] or something. This can actually work better for some things than any [[permission-based model]], but it gives an edge to those who have figured out how to do it reliably. It also makes it hard for any limits to be put on such activity. | ||
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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]]. | 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 [[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 [http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Metaweb:faction en:Metaweb:faction]. Consumerium has more need to identify factions than Metaweb, so we may lead them in this regard.'' | |||
''See also [http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Metaweb:faction en:Metaweb:faction]. Consumerium | |||
''See [http://recyclopedia.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Recyclopedia:faction en:Recyclopedia:faction] and [http://recyclopedia.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Recyclopedia:direct_democracy en:Recyclopedia:direct_democracy] for a proposal to deal much more effectively with [[community point of view]] bias.'' | ''See [http://recyclopedia.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Recyclopedia:faction en:Recyclopedia:faction] and [http://recyclopedia.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Recyclopedia:direct_democracy en:Recyclopedia:direct_democracy] for a proposal to deal much more effectively with [[community point of view]] bias.'' |