[WikiEN-l] 3RR: Pluses vs Minuses

Sat Mar 5 01:19:26 UTC 2005

Not always.

Check out the edit history of the Sollog article, particularly
around Dec 27 2004, where a mother of all edit wars took place in spite
of, and possibly even because of, the 3RR rule.

This now seems to have consequently bought about that Sollog site that
I mentioned earlier. 

Arno

----- Original Message -----
From: Delirium <delirium at hackish.org>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] 3RR: Pluses vs Minuses
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:21:43 -0500

> 
> Zoney wrote:
> 
> > All the 3RR does in *some* circumstances is re-enforce Wikipedia's
> > majority bias. Even if it is a useful enforcement tool in many other
> > cases.
> >
> >
> It also, perhaps more importantly, contains damage by making revert 
> wars by necessity very short.  Prior to the 3RR, we'd sometimes 
> have revert wars going on for hundreds of reverts.
> 
> -Mark
> 
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