Tony Sidaway wrote:
You couldn't compromise with your fellow editors so you were benched. Tough, but that's how it is.
I don't agree with this attitude at all.
Steven is a longtime, high quality editor. His point in this particular case is that a mechanical rule like 3RR is flawed when it is applied in this fashion. The reverts were to different aspects of the article, and the participants were communicating.
Steven did not demand that he be unblocked, he did not ask for arbitration, he took it in good spirit while pointing out what is in fact a legitimate problem with mechanical rules like this.
Now, my own personal opinion, and this might be one that Steven shares, is that given the ongoing problems with revert wars and pointless edit wars in general, the 3RR is necessary and useful *even though* it also has some unfortunate negative side effects.
But I see no reason at all to take an attitude that Steven "was benched" or that he "couldn't compromise with his fellow editors".
--Jimbo