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LOL. Well, I was about to post this to the ANI thread below in response to Bbb23's 3RR analogy. It seems a shame to let it go to waste, particularly as it seems it was very prescient.

Here's an even better analogy. User A makes 4 reverts in 24 hours, without a valid reason. User B tells him that was a violation of 3RR, and not to do it again. User A tells him it wasn't, and gives a whole list of gobbledygook links as some kind of justification for the reverts, which to any normal user looks like nonsense, borne out of fundemental failure to understand both 3RR and all the other links they threw out there. User A then proceeds to make 4 further reverts. User B tells him he's incompetent, and advises them to buck their ideas up. User A gets upset and comes to ANI. User B has done nothing wrong, so stands by his actions. Users C/D/E/F/G/H form a kangaroo court, and while expressing no concern whatsoever about user A, proceed to focus solely on User B, full of their own self importance at their chance to fuck over someone with heavy doses of selective hearing/reading. Probable outcome: User B, a productive editor, decides that Wikipedia is a basket case with completely backwards priorities, and is lost to the project forever, either through force, or by his choice. User A continues to be an incompent editor, messes up a whole bunch more articles, and propogates his poor understanding of policy to even less experienced users by spreading it all over random talk pages. Long term, User A either finally learns the ropes, having no doubt destroyed an unknowable amount of content and confused an unknowable amount of inexperienced editors in the meantime, or they screw up and they get blocked after applying their incompetence to a disupte which involves some power user or other, and finally gets the block they deserve, still no doubt not having any idea what they've done wrong, because here's the kicker - they have been incompetent all along.   

With that, I'm out of here. You all have fun now editting articles while others who don't know a BLP from a loaf of bread get in your way, and when you highlight it, it's dismissed as nothing but a ""content dispute"". Good job everyone!"