Stormie wrote:
Dan Drake wrote:
Is there any more to be said about a sysop who is
a _participant_ in
a revert war..
The sysop in question's only participation in the edit war was to
revert our anon user's _11th_ and _12th_ insertion of the offending
phrase. The way you say that makes it sound like he war actively
involved in the POV-feuding.
Apparently, he was. If you're going to start banning people for a
violation of the 3-revert rule you need to apply it equally to everyone
who violated the rule in the article, without regard to the POV
expressed by either party.
and who blocks
an adversary (legalistically, a proper action under
3-reverts) with no more explanation than a rude, spiteful comment
that _assumes_ the other knows all the rules?
The comment was a bit flip, but obviously a reference to the fact that
the user had ignored the two messages posted to his talk page, and
continued to revert and revert and revert, with no attempt at
conversation beyond a mischievous attack on Texture which certainly
made it seem to ME that he was no newbie.
If two or more people work together passing off the revert duties so
that each of them avoids being affected by the 3-edit rule that's a
conspiracy to put themselves in a superior position to the newby, who
obviously hasn't had time to develop his own alliances. All parties to
such a conspiracy should be banned just as much as the newby.
Serious question: what would you have done? This anon
user was clearly
displaying his intent to continually revert an article, without ever
discussing it, and ignore all attempts to converse with him on the
issue. He was showing signs of being a troll rather than an honest
newbie. As far as I can see, there's only 3 possibilities:
1) Give up, let him have the Ronald Reagan article to write in his POV
2) Protect the article
3) Block him
Can you think of another alternative? Or do you just think that #2 is
the better of the options?
A sysop should have enough experience to know that if he waits for
24-hours, the alleged offender will probably just go away. He will then
probably be able to reimpose his POV without hindrance.
Perhaps sysops should bew limited to one revert in 24 hours.
Ec