2007/2/25, Timwi timwi@gmx.net:
Simetrical wrote:
On 2/23/07, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Amazing: You were very tempted to block them because they were causing too much traffic, but it still didn't occur to you to simply add the count to the Special:Contributions page, thereby peacefully rendering them obsolete?
First of all, there was no edit count until just recently. Second of all, people aren't just interested in edits, they're interested in edit *stats*.
Are you suggesting that because people want "more than just X", they shouldn't even have X?
I think he's suggesting that giving them X through another means will not stop them from using edit count bots if what they want is more than X.