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(there is no such thing as a "Consumerian", if you want a Consumerium social club, call it that. But mandatory cliques are called factions and are only for serious disputes) |
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::Please read [[Consumerium Social Club]]. We have tried for a long time to resist the [[community point of view]] biases common at Wikipedia, which are responsible for a good deal of the [http://recyclopedia.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Wikimedia_corruption corruption that results] when there is [http://recyclopedia.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Wikimedia_point_of_view one priveleged group that all knows each other] and socializes with each other. | ::Please read [[Consumerium Social Club]]. We have tried for a long time to resist the [[community point of view]] biases common at Wikipedia, which are responsible for a good deal of the [http://recyclopedia.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Wikimedia_corruption corruption that results] when there is [http://recyclopedia.info/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Wikimedia_point_of_view one priveleged group that all knows each other] and socializes with each other. | ||
:: | ::The principle of [[rendezvous by interest]]s is very sound. But please rename it [[interests of Consumerium contributors]] or something else that does not imply [[Consumerium:We|"we"]] are a clique. Thx - [[trolls]], who are not "Consumerians", not "Wikipedians", and wish to allow people to contribute without having to declare this kind of information about themselves. | ||
::[[Mandatory clique]]s have a name here: they're called [[faction]]s, and they're used only to resolve serious disputes that we have no other fair way to resolve. Surely you can see the problem with one group of people who are willing to socialize calling itself "Consumerians" and those who don't socialize not able to build up [[social capital]] in the same way or with the same history. Faction names must emphasize differences not similarities. For instance you know what kind of party will call itself after the country that it runs to rule... | |||
* take an informal inventory of humyn resources potentially available to a project of Consumerium's nature, whatever that is. | * take an informal inventory of humyn resources potentially available to a project of Consumerium's nature, whatever that is. | ||