Seconded on all points!
In my 4000 or so edits, I've had the misfortune to witness one or two petty fights, but rarely get involved.
Seriously, though, how misfortunate is that? The fights, and the occasional POV war, are utterly inevitable. What gratifies me is that, most of the time, we still *do* do a good job of finding the elusive NPOV middle ground. I don't have more than a few thousand edits myself, but I've had the *pleasure* of wandering into a couple of POV battles on contentions subjects, learning a bit more about those subjects, learning a bit more about the personalities involved, and contributing some compromise wordings which both sides accepted and which are among my proudest Wikipedia edits.