Chad Perrin said:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
I've run into people like that, I'm sure we all have. But I really don't understand why you would claim that using talk with newcomers and mavericks is useless.
I don't think that's what was being said at all. My interpretation of phrasing was not that "using talk with newcomers and mavericks is useless," but rather that there is a statistical trend of "useless" effect to discussion with certain demographics. That doesn't mean that one shouldn't try talking to members of such demographics, but rather that one should understand that sometimes such attempts at reasonable discussion are more prone to failure than with other people.
I think my phrasing was sloppy. I meant that I don't think discussion is *ever* useless. There is simply no point at which, in my opinion, it is acceptable to resort to edit warring--certainly not to the level where one editor alone is in danger of breaching the 3RR.