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'''Wiki politics''' are a consequence of [[wiki governance]] problems and [[politics as usual]] of trying to reconcile various people's assumptions and ideas about [[safety]] and [[closure]] to come up with some [[rules]] that reflect some idea of [[fairness]].  [[Trolling]] is the result of trying to ignore wiki politics and impose fascistic solutions via some [[echo chamber]].
'''Wiki politics''' are a consequence of [[wiki governance]] problems and [[politics as usual]] of trying to reconcile various people's assumptions and ideas about [[safety]] and [[closure]] to come up with some [[rules]] that reflect some idea of [[fairness]].  [[Trolling]] is the result of trying to ignore wiki politics and impose fascistic solutions via some [[echo chamber]].
Usually wiki politics is petty, immature and primitive and involves labelling [[heretic]]s and engaging in [[wiki witchhunt]]s.  These behaviours are no longer tolerated in the real world, but many [[sysop]]s do not live in the real world and can't take the actual constraints of the real world, so they live in a fantasy world, where they have absolute power to silence [[trolls|those who oppose]].
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