[WikiEN-l] 3RR needs to go (was Re: Newbie biting, the 3RR, and improper labeling of vandalism)

[Vee]

On 09/09/2007, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Blocking people isn't going to help
> y'all decide what version the page
> should be, and will probably just
> make it hard for anyone to work
> together.
>
> I suggest you get rid of per-user
> 3RR and replace it with some
> sort of per-article revert rule,
> which results in article protection
> if a limit is exceeded.  Then y'all
> can actually talk about content
> instead of quibbling over who
> deserves to be blocked and
> who doesn't.
>
> Deserves... did something wrong...
> doesn't deserve... didn't do anything
> wrong....  3RR blocks are punitive,
> and do nothing to protect the
> encyclopaedia itself y'all are always
> bringing up as an excuse to hurt
> people.
>
> Not that anyone will listen to me....
>
> Actually I don't care that much, as
> long as you are nice to the people
> when you block them... but that
> might be too much to hope for.
>
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No. Protecting the article would stop uninvolved people who have nothing to
do with the edit war from editing. I don't want ot be barred from editng an
article just because someone else is an argumentative idiot.