From: Jtkiefer jtkiefer@wordzen.net Ryan Delaney wrote:
Jtkiefer wrote:
It's gotten to the point where 3RR has become unenforceable. Any administrator who tries to enforce 3RR regulations posted on AN/3RR are subsequently villified, accused of bias, amd/or threatened with an RFC if they continue doing their job. Due to this many editors stay away from enforcing 3RR and I think something needs to be changed so that admnistrators can actually enforce this rule without fear.
In my experience, this is the case with just about any enforcement policy. When you judge that someone has violated policy, they conclude that you are "involved" and therefore should not be the one to enforce the policy. The implicit logic is that any administrator who familiarized him or her self with the case and chose to act in an administrative function because the situation called for it is now "involved". That may be true by definition, but it doesn't imply conflict of interest. Yet a lot of people -- including other administrators, in my direct experience -- have been subliminally persuaded by this faulty reasoning.
Ryan
Yes it happens with quite a few policies most recently NPOV but 3RR is something that's not just like other policies where occasionally issues pop up but 3RR at the fundamental level seems to be flawed by the fact that it is misused by those who wish to gain an upper edge in content disputes and administrators who try to enforce it have to end up digging through edit warring and conflicts many times and much of the time end up being villified for it even more than administrators normally are for doing their jobs... and coming from someone who gets threats and personal attacks against him quite a bit that's saying a lot. Enforcing 3RR has become an everyday battle. ~~~~
The alternative is (and was) worse.
Jay.