On 10/6/05, actionforum@comcast.net actionforum@comcast.net wrote:
Regardless of the fact that some oppose the 3RR rule, when the prescribed punishment is a 24 hour block, putting someone in a system that almost certainly will result in a longer block without careful monitoring and intervention by the admin is abusive.
Oh this is surely an incredibly nitpicking attitude. If the block lasts a bit longer than you expected, you can go and read a book or a newspaper or something. Why the tearing hurry to get back to the wiki? The block is there to tell you to cool it.
You seem to be straining so very hard to find admin actions abusive, that you don't consider that the admin actions serve a useful purpose. That purpose is not to measure out time in equal portions, as an egg-timer might do, but to keep people who have been making abusive edits away from the wiki. . Were it not for the editor's eagerness to tear back into the wiki and perform yet another useless revert, he wouldn't have been blocked in the first place.