New troll

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A new troll is a user who has gotten into one or more conflicts but is not clearly associated with any faction yet, or has deliberately denied being representative of any faction. Basically, it's just someone who has been called a "troll" or otherwise told their point of view is idiosyncratic or invalid, and who has not yet developed any steady allies or collaborators here.

According mostly to trolls, the New Troll point of view is a real and coherent thing that can be established by consensus and keep large public wikis from freezing into simple cliques of the existing participants. In this factional view, the treatment of new trolls is central to all wiki governance. This view is strongly opposed to any imposition of community point of view or trusting any neutral point of view that the established "community" agrees with.