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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Secret Organization Craving Intelligent Enigmatic Tropers Yonder|S]]ome pe[[Secret Organization Craving Intelligent Enigmatic Tropers Yonder|o]]ple have theorized that such an Omnipotent [[Secret Organization Craving Intelligent Enigmatic Tropers Yonder|C]]ouncil ex[[Secret Organization Craving Intelligent Enigmatic Tropers Yonder|i]]sts on [[
** The TVT admins can sure seem this way when you don't particularly know or care to know about admin politics. That is; unseen, incomprehensible, usually irrelevant.
*** More plausibly, all that's happening is a combination of [[Ghost in the Shell|stand alone complex due]] to
* When editing [[Wikipedia|larger Wikis]], the editors who wind up peer-reviewing articles (deletion discussions as a prominent example) are an essentially arbitrary group assembled from such a large pool of motives, goals, and expertise they might as well be an Omniscient Council of Vagueness. You get the impression that a cabal of uncaring, misinformed twits is running the whole show with the sole intention of pissing you off. [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|Really, there is no cabal.]] It's just the ''universe'' which hates you.
** The (tabletop) wargaming pages suffer from a one-man council, much the chagrin of some wargaming message boards where he has become a ridiculed hate figure. He has his own set of unknown rules by which he deletes entries on games that 'aren't notable enough', with no explanation or reference to either the popularity outside his personal circle or new ideas a set introduces.
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