On 10/5/05, steve v vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
If the rule is infallible, what actually confirms this --ie. reviews and corrects the rules when they are not? I cant go around filing Arbcom cases for every sysop whom I think is acting like a jerk in enforcing "da rulz." (Rather, it seems quite natural to emulate them ;).
I'm not sure whether you're asking what we have as a check on enforcement of [[WP:3RR]]. In case you are, that is performed in the first instance by the administrators' noticeboard section [[WP:AN3]].
Wrongful use of the administrator's powers under that rule can be reviewed there. This doesn't prove that 3RR is infallible (actually I find it a useless rule and never have anything to do with it, relying instead on commonsense and public review of my actions) but it does provide a check on abuse of the rule.