[WikiEN-l] Re: Illegitimate block.

[Robert Brookes]

--- David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:

> Robert Brookes (the_robert_brookes at yahoo.com)
> [050115 20:22]:
> 
> > I thought that the beauty of the 3RR rule was its
> "simplicity" in that when a breach is committed
> there is no doubt? No sooner had the ink dried on
> that policy update that such a breach could lead to
> a 24 hour block than some of the more "imaginative"
> sysops were proposing to "interpret" the intention
> of  a specific editor and demanding the power to
> block at will based on their personal
> interpretation. 
> > There is a need to indeed keep it simple or
> severely restrict who may block through their
> personal powers for omnipotent interpretation of
> what another person is thinking.
> 
> 
> I fear admin consensus appears to be against you on
> this one, that you
> do not in fact have some sort of ironclad right to
> four reverts in 24h 1m,
> and that admins will in fact apply the "is this
> person taking the piss?"
> test.
> 
> Wikipedia is not primarily an experiment in Internet
> democracy. It's a
> project to write an encyclopedia.
> 
> 
> - d.
>


What on earth are you going on about?


		
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