On 5/15/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email)
<alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
3RR should be expanded to {4,5}RR for first-time
offenders who haven't
been notified of its existence, for the sake of courtesy and not biting
the newbies.
I would suggest that instead, the rule is kept as is, but first-time
violators are not blocked, but instead *strongly* warned. "You would
normally be blocked for this. Take a good read of [[WP:3RR]] and don't
ever do it again."
Steve
Back when I was last invovled the general approach was that if someone
was new (that was defined subjectively) and had not been informed of
the rule you would not be blocked. Our smater revert warriours
responded by warning their opponents about the rule after two reverts.
--
geni