WP:BEANS means not telling X “don’t do Y” where Y is something that X would be unwise to do, but might do just to cause trouble, or for fun and with indifference to the consequences.
Telling Eugine “don’t sacrifice a chicken to the Privacy Gods” (pretending for the sake of argument that that would enable him to avoid being spotted by LW moderators and the like) doesn’t fit that template because (1) avoiding being spotted wouldn’t be unwise for him and (2) his interest in not being spotted isn’t because he wants to cause trouble but because he has particular goals that he can’t achieve as effectively if he’s spotted.
It’s not far off WP:BEANS, and the difference isn’t particularly important, but it doesn’t seem to me like it quite fits.
(Note that the example in WP:BEANS is of something that would “crash Wikipedia”, not e.g. something that would “allow you to modify any page to say anything you like without risk of having it reverted”. It’s aiming at carelessness and trollery rather than at purposeful abuse of the system.)
WP:BEANS means not telling X “don’t do Y” where Y is something that X would be unwise to do, but might do just to cause trouble, or for fun and with indifference to the consequences.
Telling Eugine “don’t sacrifice a chicken to the Privacy Gods” (pretending for the sake of argument that that would enable him to avoid being spotted by LW moderators and the like) doesn’t fit that template because (1) avoiding being spotted wouldn’t be unwise for him and (2) his interest in not being spotted isn’t because he wants to cause trouble but because he has particular goals that he can’t achieve as effectively if he’s spotted.
It’s not far off WP:BEANS, and the difference isn’t particularly important, but it doesn’t seem to me like it quite fits.
(Note that the example in WP:BEANS is of something that would “crash Wikipedia”, not e.g. something that would “allow you to modify any page to say anything you like without risk of having it reverted”. It’s aiming at carelessness and trollery rather than at purposeful abuse of the system.)