On 6/28/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/28/06, fireislandparadise fireislandparadise@gmail.com wrote:
The purpose of 3RR is not to give admins the sense of power by maximizing their opportunities to block but to prevent or stop edit wars. We should be trying to reduce the number of blocks, not increase them. If a mandatory warning results in ending edit wars without a block why not do it?
A non-mandatory (but strongly encouraged) warning has that effect. A mandatory warning would create situations where a user who has edit warred can't be blocked because no warning was given.
Steve
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.