Please believe me when I say that I personally don't care about getting editing points. I don't have an awful lot of spare time these days so there's absolutely no chance of me ever reaching the mystical 1000 either way.
That said, I do find it unfair that points are awarded purely for adding word count. It's something of a disincentive to editors. Person X spends ten minutes writing 500 words of absolute nonsense and is handsomely rewarded. Person Y spends an hour turning it into 350 words of pure poetry and gets a kick in the sack for his efforts.
I'm not sure what the solution is because you can't award points purely on, say, percentage of article changed either; who knows, maybe the changes are crap too. You really need someone making a qualitative judgement on edits. And there's an obvious man-power problem there.
Like a few people above, I really think the profile banner needs a rethink. It's just too hard to get it looking decent (tiling? ugh). And there seems to be no easy way to remove the image that you just added there only to find out that it looks hideous. I wound up adding a black square and tiling it ...It's a pity because home page or profile customisation is something that people really go for; I know I do. Would it be very difficult to make the entire background customisable a la the new Bombcast page?
As for the dark grey text, I swear to God I've only just noticed it. I couldn't understand what everyone was talking about. It's not dimmed, it's camouflaged!
Congrats otherwise. I can only imagine the amount of work involved.
The Status Update Box Thing (TM) on the user profile isn't syncing properly with the User List Database Thing (TM).
If you add "doing something" to "Username is", it comes out as "Username Username is doing something" on the list. Confusingly, it still looks fine on the profile.
Fear not: you are not in the least socially impaired because you would rather be alone than talk to idiots. If anything, it's an admirable trait. Pity instead the people who plaster on fake smiles and say things they don't mean in the forlorn hope that it might make them popular with people they don't even like.
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