Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31256456-20181228061901/@comment-31256456-20181229062845

Gob47 wrote: RubikJohn wrote: Gob47 wrote: This is exactly why I stopped making roles/reviewing because it felt so pointless.

However, if anyone knows anything about grinding, 100 edits takes about half an hour, while most people out there won't spend 2 hours at a time grinding just to vote. It's mainly to deter alts. :/ but I get what you mean. I get what you mean, but Poke's whole point is that some users are less talkative and still contribute a significant amount, especially without flooding the fun and games board. Poke's 600 edits are in my eyes worth more than thousands of edits made be some other users, especially with how understanding and knowledgeable he is without needing to constantly show a presence.

I'm with Yami - I have my notes down, expect a longer post whenever I get to my keyboard. I've always been kinda embarrassed of my 14 mainspace edits, which were all spelling/grammar edits. I loved the community on DoTW, which is where I started getting involved with the forum. Although I see how Poke's 600ish edits are great, and other users might have 400 edits and still be a positive influence to the community, it was necessary to place a quantitative measurement, because how else would we quantify "active?" Oh I'm not saying that I deserve TOTM or anything honestly. I don't consider myself amazing honestly. I'm not that great of a member. I'm just a person with an opinion, and yours is just as valued as mine.

The main problem with Wikia though is that edits are counted by any amount of letters, basically, you just need to change something for an edit. This means that single letters like  d o ig u uewopii mt  or whatever count as an edit, which means we've seen problems in the past.

Don't know if you remember, but there was a controversy where I believe SpicyJusticeLass was accused of farming mainspace edits by doing some grammar corrections of one letter at a time or something. Don't know the specifics, but that's an example of how it's easy to manipulate. If only we could quantify by quality, but that's impossible, unfortunately. We'll see what happens. I'm just slightly concerned on what direction the Wikia is heading towards, as I believe most of the people who were here originally are right now, though some new members might not remember the old forum.