--- "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
You couldn't compromise with your fellow editors so you were benched. Tough, but that's how it is.
I don't agree with this attitude at all.
Me neither. Tony's whole email seemed unnecessarily mean-spirited to me.
Steven is a longtime, high quality editor.
Very much so, yes.
His point in this particular case is that a mechanical rule like 3RR is flawed when it is applied in this fashion. The reverts were to different aspects of the article, and the participants were communicating.
No argument from me there. But that opinion on how the 3RR should work is apparently a minority one. I base this on asking several other ArbCom members and making an inquiry on the 3RR talk page. The rule states 'no more than 3 reverts on any page in 24 hours.' Most people take that very literally (for better or worse). I interpret 'reverts' to be the same or substantially the same revert. Oh well.
Now, my own personal opinion, and this might be one that Steven shares, is that given the ongoing problems with revert wars and pointless edit wars in general, the 3RR is necessary and useful *even though* it also has some unfortunate negative side effects.
I also share that opinion.
-- mav
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