Alas, Stack Overflow has fallen prey to that dread disease that plagues all wiki systems: The Edit War.
We’re not exactly like Wikipedia, because we are a hybrid system, but it’s worth scanning the official Wikipedia definition:
Edit warring is the confrontational use of edits to win a content dispute. Administrators often must make a judgement call to identify edit warring when cooling disputes. Administrators currently use several measures to determine if a user is edit warring.
The most common measure of edit warring is the three-revert rule, often abbreviated 3RR. The three-revert …