[WikiEN-l] 3RR Unenforceable

Wed Dec 14 16:45:50 UTC 2005

JAY JG wrote:
> From: Jtkiefer <jtkiefer at wordzen.net>

>> Yes it happens with quite a few policies most recently NPOV but 3RR is
>> something that's not just like other policies where occasionally
>> issues pop up but 3RR at the fundamental level seems to be flawed by
>> the fact that it is misused by those who wish to gain an upper edge in
>> content disputes and administrators who try to enforce it have to end
>> up digging through edit warring and conflicts many times and much of
>> the time end up being villified for it even more than administrators
>> normally are for doing their jobs... and coming from someone who gets
>> threats and personal attacks against him quite a bit that's saying a
>> lot.  Enforcing 3RR has become an everyday battle. ~~~~

> The alternative is (and was) worse.

Indeed it was. Really, 3RR is FAR better than what came before it.

Remember that it is in no way mandatory for any particular admin to act
on a 3RR violation. So if you use your admin powers for other things but
don't like confrontations with fools who don't know when to cop it
sweet, you are not at all obligated to put yourself there.

- d.