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=== democratic user roles ===
=== democratic user roles ===


We may require formal [[Wiki Editor]] and [[Wiki Lawyer]]/advocate/mediator roles to guide [[Wiki Sysop]] behaviour.  Left on their own they tend to be [[little tin god]]s - each hoping to grow up to be [[GodKing]].  This shouldn't be encouraged.  Nor should a clique of [[usuper]]s doing [[sysop vandalism]], which seems to be the next step in the "evolution" away from GodKings to some [[priestly hierarchy]].
We may require formal [[Wiki Editor]] and [[Wiki Lawyer]]/advocate/mediator roles to guide [[Wiki Sysop]] behaviour.  Left on their own they tend to be [[little tin god]]s - each hoping to grow up to be [[GodKing]].  This shouldn't be encouraged.  Nor should a clique of [[usurper]]s doing [[sysop vandalism]], which seems to be the next step in the "evolution" away from GodKings to some [[priestly hierarchy]].  None of these poor management methods will be able to generate or respond to real world pressures, and only work in a fantasy world.


[[Consumerium buying signal]] will not stand up under scrutiny in a democratic society unless it has democratic [[sysop power structure]].  Good sysops are disposable, period.  Good editors are not.  And good lawyers can keep your project going when it otherwise would be flushed down the toilet (see reference to [[Wikimedia]] above, which will almost certainly be destroyed by failure to democratize in time).
[[Consumerium buying signal]] will not stand up under scrutiny in a democratic society, or even [[cease and desist letter]]s directed to its board, unless it has democratic [[sysop power structure]].  Good sysops are disposable, period.  Good editors are not.  And good lawyers can keep your project going when it otherwise would be flushed down the toilet (see reference to [[Wikimedia]] above, which will almost certainly be destroyed by failure to democratize in time).


=== problems ===
=== problems ===
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