'Too much' rigid enforcement of punitive rules does not help you accomplish anything.
Blocking everyone isn't going to help... everyone will probably just get really upset and barely be able to work together anymore. There is, however, an alternative: page protection.
On 09/09/2007, FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
3RR is there for the same reason POINT is there - a degree of getting in the way of writing is constructive, too much is destructive.
The "too much" is a subjective limit, but that doesn't mean broad agreement on a decent place to set it can't be had.
FT2
-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Armed Blowfish Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 2:04 AM To: English Wikipedia Subject: [WikiEN-l] 3RR needs to go (was Re: Newbie biting, the 3RR, and improper labeling of vandalism)
Blocking people isn't going to help y'all decide what version the page should be, and will probably just make it hard for anyone to work together.
I suggest you get rid of per-user 3RR and replace it with some sort of per-article revert rule, which results in article protection if a limit is exceeded. Then y'all can actually talk about content instead of quibbling over who deserves to be blocked and who doesn't.
Deserves... did something wrong... doesn't deserve... didn't do anything wrong.... 3RR blocks are punitive, and do nothing to protect the encyclopaedia itself y'all are always bringing up as an excuse to hurt people.
Not that anyone will listen to me....
Actually I don't care that much, as long as you are nice to the people when you block them... but that might be too much to hope for.