On Tuesday 09 March 2004 15:00, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Just to keep everyone guessing here, ha ha, I'm actually very sympathetic to what Mark is saying.
One of the things that's tempting about the 3-revert rule is that it's easy to administer and judge after the fact. There are precious few borderline cases. Reverting is reverting, anyone can check the logs after the fact and see it. This is very different from subjective judgments like "hostility" and "rude" and even "vandalism".
If we had a rule that say "3 reverts and you're out for 24 hours", it would be fairly hard for sysops to abuse it. It at least has that as a merit.
Actually, it would be very easy for three users, sysops or not, to gang upon a single user, communicate via e-mail, and "independently" revert user's changes.