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This page in a nutshell: Editors have been known to annoy another editor or admin, for having the audacity to actually work toward building an encyclopedia, not being cogs in a bureaucracy, playing a MMORPG, arguing on a webboard, or making pals on a social networking site. Some editors really treat their time here as public-interest volunteer work, not a political sim, and this obviously just will not do.
How to identify rouge editors
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If rules make you nervous and depressed, and not desirous of participating in the wiki, then ignore them entirely and go about your business.
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—The original formulation of what became WP:IAR.[2] (perfected today to soulless economy by rouge admins)
Rouge editors are the non-administrative yin to the yang of rouge admins. They annoy all admins, including Jimbo, as well as other editors, because – although not outright wikianarchists – they just don't need no stinking[3]mob-rule permissions or admonitions. They may also be fairly easily hounded into violating #2 of the Wikipedia:Trifecta; this is a good way to smoke them out.
Rouge editors, even after several warnings from admins, may just say, "oh, I didn't hear that". This is especially frustrating for admins who have it out for the rouge editor and are deeply involved in the background of the dispute, and thus clearly know best, and should treat any back-talk as disruptive editing. Spokescreatures for the Rouge Editor Cabal have pledged to continue their passive-resistance campaign, of tendentiously volunteering to edit without being hassled over trivial matters, until April25, 2055. On this date, rouge editors plan to immanentize the long-forseen Wikiapocalypse with an ArbCom case involving all rouge admins at once,[4] although the editors promise to ignore ArbCom regardless of the case's outcome. They will also vandalize the userpages of all rouge admins on April Fools' Day,[5]and get away with it.
To identify yourself as a rouge editor, just act like one and go about your editing business. Or add one of the following userboxes to your userpage (or better yet to someone else's):