[WikiEN-l] 3RR Unenforceable

Wed Dec 14 02:16:48 UTC 2005

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Jtkiefer wrote:

> It's gotten to the point where 3RR has become unenforceable. Any
> administrator who tries to enforce 3RR regulations posted on AN/3RR
> are subsequently villified, accused of bias, amd/or threatened with
> an RFC if they continue doing their job. Due to this many editors
> stay away from enforcing 3RR and I think something needs to be
> changed so that admnistrators can actually enforce this rule without
> fear.

In my experience, this is the case with just about any enforcement
policy. When you judge that someone has violated policy, they conclude
that you are "involved" and therefore should not be the one to enforce
the policy.  The implicit logic is that any administrator who
familiarized him or her self with the case and chose to act in an
administrative function because the situation called for it is now
"involved". That may be true by definition, but it doesn't imply
conflict of interest. Yet a lot of people -- including other
administrators, in my direct experience -- have been subliminally
persuaded by this faulty reasoning.

Ryan
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