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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
-One good 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."
+The closest approximation in the [[geek-net]] universe is however 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.
+So, there may be user groups that are answerable only to each other and not to the management, which only manages the conflicts between factions, rather like it also tries to stay out of [[conflicts between users]] and just play referee:
 A '''faction''' competes with other factions, and has a [[tendency]] to view some things the same way - it may formally cooperate or list some [[values]] or principles.  It has its own view of the [[glossary]].  Any [[funded troll]]s advancing a view implies there must be a faction with that view - maybe not one that [[Consumerium:Itself]] can see.