On 6/28/06, fireislandparadise fireislandparadise@gmail.com wrote:
The edit war would (or should) be ended by the warning given at that point, otherwise the offender would be blocked. We're getting a bit chicken and egg here. The purpose of the 3RR rules is not punitive but preventative. If the edit war has already ended there's no need for the block anyway. If it hasn't ended then the warning should end it even if it's made late.
No-one is disagreeing that often a warning is the best first course of action. All the opposition is to making it a compulsory one.