Yeah and sometimes they are naive, dogmatic and overconfident, and on a crusade to change all the things! because they have read some blog post by uncle bob, and this tool is putting them in absolute power every time they do a review.

> In a stalemate, the PR could be sent to a third party. I've suggested this many times to avoid unnecessary conflict.

Ok and who might this lucky scapegoat be? I have a feeling it's not the manager for some reason..

> I don't think it is PRs that are the issue, rather your working environment.

The issue, which I'm trying to illustrate, is that the tool makes the working environment worse by introducing (hostile) dynamics between people that don't exist, which leads you into situations that you don't have resolutions for, situations that should not occur.

Using a tool that allows you to block other people's work causes unnecessary conflict in a team where people are supposed to be working together.

Edit: blocking contributions is a normal and natural thing in an open source workflow, and it is not normal and natural in a team inside a company.