Armed Blowfish wrote:
In short, 3RR buries the content dispute and replaces it with a personal dispute.
I opposed 3RR when it was introduced, and clearly I was not successful. The point remains that its purpose was to calm down edit wars; it never resolved content disputes. I don't see it as introducing a personal dispute; it just tells the combatants to cool it.
Newbies don't understand 3RR, and blocking an established user with dozens of good edits each day, merely because of 4 little reverts on a random article somewhere, is a good way to make that user feel unloved and unwanted, possibly turning a friend into an enemy.
The experienced user should know better.
Ec