Jtkiefer wrote:
It's gotten to the point where 3RR has become
unenforceable. Any
administrator who tries to enforce 3RR regulations posted on AN/3RR
are subsequently villified, accused of bias, amd/or threatened with
an RFC if they continue doing their job. Due to this many editors
stay away from enforcing 3RR and I think something needs to be
changed so that admnistrators can actually enforce this rule without
fear.
In my experience, this is the case with just about any enforcement
policy. When you judge that someone has violated policy, they conclude
that you are "involved" and therefore should not be the one to enforce
the policy. The implicit logic is that any administrator who
familiarized him or her self with the case and chose to act in an
administrative function because the situation called for it is now
"involved". That may be true by definition, but it doesn't imply
conflict of interest. Yet a lot of people -- including other
administrators, in my direct experience -- have been subliminally
persuaded by this faulty reasoning.
Ryan
Yes it happens with quite a few policies most recently NPOV but 3RR is
something that's not just like other policies where occasionally issues
pop up but 3RR at the fundamental level seems to be flawed by the fact
that it is misused by those who wish to gain an upper edge in content
disputes and administrators who try to enforce it have to end up digging
through edit warring and conflicts many times and much of the time end
up being villified for it even more than administrators normally are for
doing their jobs... and coming from someone who gets threats and
personal attacks against him quite a bit that's saying a lot. Enforcing
3RR has become an everyday battle. ~~~~