Daniel Mayer wrote:
No argument from me there. But that opinion on how the 3RR should work is apparently a minority one. I base this on asking several other ArbCom members and making an inquiry on the 3RR talk page. The rule states 'no more than 3 reverts on any page in 24 hours.' Most people take that very literally (for better or worse). I interpret 'reverts' to be the same or substantially the same revert. Oh well.
The reason I interpret this literally as *per page* is the problem of someone camping out on an article, protecting it from all changes from "their" version.
I've seen this - User:A fixes one area, User:B reverts; User:C makes a different change, User:B reverts; User:D makes a third change, User:B reverts....
The three revert rule is certainly not perfect, and has in some ways merely shifted and complicated the problem - but on the whole I think it is the right rule - and should apply to pages and not versions.
--sannse