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(According to Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales, Wiki witchunts are '''not''' supposed occur.)
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A '''wiki witchhunt''' is a [[wiki idiom]] for an attempt to assign some [[alleged and collective identity]].  Here we do that with a [[faction]], and it's civilized.  On many [[large public wiki]]s it is a silly [[sysop power structure]] game that reflects other [[power structure]] biases and idiocies.
A '''wiki witchhunt''' is a [[wiki idiom]] for an attempt to assign some [[alleged and collective identity]].  Here we do that with a [[faction]], and it's civilized.  On many [[large public wiki]]s it is a silly [[sysop power structure]] game that reflects other [[power structure]] biases and idiocies.


According to [[Wikipedia]] founder [[Jimbo Wales]], Wiki witchunts are '''not''' supposed occur.  
According to [[Wikipedia]] founder [[Jimbo Wales]], Wiki witchunts are '''not''' supposed occur. [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-June/004979.html]


[[Consumerium:We|We]] basically hope it never happens here, but sadly our hopes have been dashed:  [[New Troll point of view|supposedly-new]] [[trolls]] whose [[trolling]] displeases known [[trolls]] find themselves associated (against their will, some claim) with the Wikipedia [[sysop power structure|power structure]] of [[sysop vandal]]s.  This is based admittedly on limited proof: [[amateur psychiatry]] and (more significant) the mindless repetition of known falsehoods like the already-discredited article on [[Craig Hubley]] that not even [[Wikipedia]]'s quite low standards will admit.  Also, it has not so far involved [[technological escalation]], i.e. no [[IP block]]s, so dialogue can continue:  the newcomers can prove themselves to actually have [[New Troll point of view]] instead of the very old [[Sysop Vandal point of view]] which they dredge up out of old article histories and try to present as being fact.
[[Consumerium:We|We]] basically hope it never happens here, but sadly our hopes have been dashed:  [[New Troll point of view|supposedly-new]] [[trolls]] whose [[trolling]] displeases known [[trolls]] find themselves associated (against their will, some claim) with the Wikipedia [[sysop power structure|power structure]] of [[sysop vandal]]s.  This is based admittedly on limited proof: [[amateur psychiatry]] and (more significant) the mindless repetition of known falsehoods like the already-discredited article on [[Craig Hubley]] that not even [[Wikipedia]]'s quite low standards will admit.  Also, it has not so far involved [[technological escalation]], i.e. no [[IP block]]s, so dialogue can continue:  the newcomers can prove themselves to actually have [[New Troll point of view]] instead of the very old [[Sysop Vandal point of view]] which they dredge up out of old article histories and try to present as being fact.


''We do not invite comment on [[Wikipedia]] policy except insofar as it degrades the [[GFDL corpus]] as a whole.  Such issues in general should be discussed there not here!  Almost all issues we can imagine that are relevant to [[wiki management]] and [[large public wiki]]s have already been covered here, so, we don't need any more detail on that subject.  Even the [[trolls]] are done ranting about it.  For now!''
''We do not invite comment on [[Wikipedia]] policy except insofar as it degrades the [[GFDL corpus]] as a whole.  Such issues in general should be discussed there not here!  Almost all issues we can imagine that are relevant to [[wiki management]] and [[large public wiki]]s have already been covered here, so, we don't need any more detail on that subject.  Even the [[trolls]] are done ranting about it.  For now!''
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