David Gerard wrote:
[[Wikipedia:Blocking policy/Personal attacks (old)]] has the vote. The vote came out 36 for, 26 against, 5 neutral - simple majority, but not enough of one to indicate consensus. As far as I can tell, the objections are that it's too subjective.
The instructive recent case of Skyring versus Adam Carr (a coupla messages ago) shows one obvious hole: Skyring belittling or ignoring all attempts at reason until the editor attempting to reason with him blows his top at the intransigent POV-pusher.
I have seen editors respond to "I think you are wrong here" with allegations of a "virulent and aggressive personal attack". At it's most extreme, it's obviously ignored. But, in a couple of cases, I've seen sensible, good editors fall into this sort of misinterpretation. Considering how subjective a straightforward rule like the 3RR turned out to be, I'm a bit dubious about this one actually /reducing/ the amount of conflict around.
--sannse