On 6/30/06, A. Nony Mouse <mousyme(a)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.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wrong_Version