[WikiEN-l] Re: Worthy admins? (was "The userbox fad")

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 1/4/06, Michael Snow <wikipedia at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Editcountitis has been around much longer than that, although it wasn't
> as big an issue for the adminship process in the beginning. Even so,
> people have used edit counts as a metric for admin candidates for a very
> long time, in Wikipedia terms. Since the software makes it relatively
> easy, the phenomenon is sort of inevitable.
>
Only if you use voting to choose administrators.