Troll-friendly

Revision as of 20:09, 7 January 2004 by 142.177.114.228 (talk) (more detail on what tactics are so unfriendly as to destroy the integrity of a purposed wiki)

A troll-friendly system or social software-based service (like the opinion wiki or this R&D wiki) assumes that built trust is very low, found trust is very high, and that grown trust will not happen unless a degree of politics as usual is allowed to apply in that system.

For consumerium, this means sysops should not push their luck or assume they are in charge of every faction or can resolve political dispute when people devote their lives to that in the real world and fail. In the long term it means that the Consumerium social club shouldn't over-ride consensus rules. But it also means that the consensus has to form on the basis of strict due process that in the long term will support a reliable Consumerium buying signal. Low-integrity editors must be "driven off":

When someone has actively participated in building a sysop power structure that engages in ad hominem revert, ad hominem delete, witch-hunt, inquisitor, psychiatry, libel and echo chamber tactics, under the same identity, they should be actively driven off by trolls, and good riddance. If they wish this not to happen, they should make a new identity, and change their behaviour under the old one on any large public wiki where they are known for this inexcusable sysop vandalism - probably also giving up any position in the sysop power structure as well. If they do all this and become an advocate for true soft security at least in cases other than simple vandalism, and become widely known for changing their spots, at that point, it is the obligation of any troll-friendly wiki to not only accept them back, but honour their conversion to the ways of trolls...