Sysop vandalism: Difference between revisions

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A specific [[sysop power structure]] may be required to reduce such vandalism.
A specific [[sysop power structure]] may be required to reduce such vandalism.
[[Sysop vandalism]] is much worse than [[sysop vigilantiism]], since [[social exclusion]] of some [[faction]] can just cause it to go somewhere else:  as with [[Wikipedia factions]], many of whom left early to do something else.  So controls on [[sysop vandalism]] are highest priority, as with all other [[vandalism]] (the only reason to need any kind of [[sysop]]).
because it prevents the actual [[GFDL corpus]] from being corrected, and may not even be noticed for a long time.


A related issue is [[sysop vigilantiism]] which is not necessarily vandalism, but does subvert [[due process]] and degrade trust in the [[power structure]]. However, [[social exclusion]] of some [[faction]] can just cause it to go somewhere else:  as with [[Wikipedia factions]], many of whom left early to do something else.  [[Sysop vandalism]] is much worse, because it prevents the actual [[GFDL corpus]] from being corrected, and may not even be noticed for a long time. So controls on [[sysop vandalism]] are highest priority, as with all other [[vandalism]] (the only reason to need any kind of [[sysop]]).
A related issue is [[sysop vigilantiism]] which is not necessarily vandalism, but does subvert [[due process]] and degrade trust in the [[power structure]]. However, [[social exclusion]] of some [[faction]] can just cause it to go somewhere else:  as with [[Wikipedia factions]], many of whom left early to do something else.  [[Sysop vandalism]] is much worse, because it prevents the actual [[GFDL corpus]] from being corrected, and may not even be noticed for a long time. So controls on [[sysop vandalism]] are highest priority, as with all other [[vandalism]] (the only reason to need any kind of [[sysop]]).