[WikiEN-l] The 3-revert rule

[Jimmy Wales]

Bjorn Lindqvist wrote:
> When *I* voted on that poll some week ago, the poll was about whether
> there should be a *guideline* that reads "do not do more than three
> reverts" or not. Nowhere on that page did it say that the poll really
> was about whether to allow admins to block a user that reverts three
> times or not. 
> 
> Many of the 51+ persons that has voted probably did not either
> understand that the vote was about bannings. If that is what the vote
> is about and not just a guideline.

I share Bjorn's concern.

It's one thing to say that we have a very strong community guideline
or norm that says 3 reverts in a day is enough.  It's quite another
thing to introduce an entirely new paradigm in which 24 hour bans are
made for things that are not really emergency situations.

I'm not 100% opposed to the idea, but my foot dragging on making any
sort of decree about this is grounded in the fact that I see this as a
rather radical departure from past practice.

--Jimbo