User blog comment:Zane T 69/Wiki Improvements/@comment-778071-20160626023744/@comment-778071-20160627130000

Sure Blaziken, again I can only point out that it's your prerogative. The scenario you presented of how admins may deal with such a situation is indeed legitimate. But not all Wikis have 'active admin forces' - and consider the case where two users edit an article x25 times because of content disputes, with the edits consisting of nothing more than the reverting of the other's edits. Nobody is around to stop them. As an admin who sees the edit war in the recent changes, what would you do? The spirit of 3RR is to safeguard against unconstructive editing. It sends the message to users that this sort of behaviour where users shout past each other on edit summaries and do nothing but revert each other's edits is unacceptable. I can only speak from my experience, and say that there have been past disputes on the Wiki where it was useful and appropriate to give users in conflict a block from editing (as per 3RR) because their behaviour was not conducive to moving forward and resolving the issue. Cheers.