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One good [[user-land]] 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."


In [[wiki management]], a '''faction''' is a '''mandatory clique''' to deal with [[alleged and collective identity]] problems that can't otherwise be sorted out without serious [[privacy]] problems, e.g. authorizing [[outing]].
In [[wiki management]], a '''faction''' is a '''mandatory clique''' to deal with [[alleged and collective identity]] problems that can't otherwise be sorted out without serious [[privacy]] problems, e.g. authorizing [[outing]].  The [[Wikipedia Red Faction]] is the most obvious declared public example.


Factions already exist as 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.
Factions already exist as 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.
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