On 09/09/2007, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Armed Blowfish wrote:
In short, 3RR buries the content dispute and replaces it with a personal dispute.
I opposed 3RR when it was introduced, and clearly I was not successful.
Good for you! : )
The point remains that its purpose was to calm down edit wars; it never resolved content disputes. I don't see it as introducing a personal dispute; it just tells the combatants to cool it.
Perhaps in theory, but it doesn't generally work that way in practise. If you want them to 'cool it', you want to send the message that hey!, it doesn't matter that much if the article is stuck in the wrong version for awhile. (BLP is different, but anyway.) Blocking people sends exactly the opposite message - that the article being in the right version, right now, is so important that you will block anyone - a good contributor or a clueless newbie - to make sure it stays in that version.
Newbies don't understand 3RR, and blocking an established user with dozens of good edits each day, merely because of 4 little reverts on a random article somewhere, is a good way to make that user feel unloved and unwanted, possibly turning a friend into an enemy.
The experienced user should know better.
Ec
Know better? And the last time you made a mistake in your life was...?
When I meow at a particular guy whom I very much like, the high-pitch of my voice hurts his hears. So, I try to remember not to meow and/or make other squeaky noises around him. However, I do it so instinctively that I often forget. This does not, however, define who I am, to him or to myself.
Of course, that's nothing compared to many of my other mistakes, but it is one I make regularly and frequently.
Show me someone who doesn't make mistakes on a daily basis, and I'll show you someone who's dead, or perhaps in a coma.