On 6/17/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
If one could actually correlate edit counts to success on the Wiki — something for which I imagine there is a high possibility, even if it has not here been proven — it is likely because a user with a large number of edits has invested more time here, understands how things work a bit better, and understands what sorts of arguments do and do not register. (New and outraged users usually think that decrying "censorship" is a useful strategy, for some reason; in reality, it just makes them look like total nutballs who can't construct a convincing argument.) It is also the case that users who stick around and edit a lot are likely to be noticed and recognized by others as good editors, and others are more likely to be sympathetic to them.
There is also the issue that someone with 20,000 would have rather a large stake in the project.