On 6/30/06, A. Nony Mouse mousyme@gmail.com wrote:
3RR is supposed to be an "electric fence" of some sort. Instead, though, all it does is make edit warring into a game of chicken. One side of a dispute dredges up sockpuppets/meatpuppets, the other does the same, and they play the "gotcha" game with their patron admins on either side standing by to drop a block on the opposing side at moment's notice.
3RR is a godsend. It is clear, specific, unambiguous, and easily enforceable. Whatever its flaws, it's preferable to what we had before: unlimited reverts unless an admin wandered by and felt like jumping into the snake pit.
It's the same thing with our page protection policies. A bunch of edit warriors start reverting each other and then demanding the page be locked to their preferred version. Demand that it be locked, and get one of their friendly patron admins (and thanks to the broken RFA procedure these days, we've got a fuck-ton of those too) to make sure the lock is on "their" version.