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Contributing is wonderful, but those internet points (reputation) screws it up. An edit would give you 2 points if you have a rep < 2000, and contributes towar
by 0xmohit 10y ago
Contributing is wonderful, but those internet points (reputation) screws it up. An edit would give you 2 points if you have a rep < 2000, and contributes towards badges anyways. People would make pointless edits to a post. See http://stackoverflow.com/posts/21023161/revisions http://stackoverflow.com/posts/21023161/revisions for example. There is no change between the original answer and the latest revision after 3 edits.
- subhobroto 10y agoExcellent insight. I am hopeful SE will figure out a way to stop/reduce this arbitrage opportunity.
- slavik81 10y agoThat example is all on Emil Vikström, who unilaterally accepted a bad edit from Akshat (with minor corrections of his own) after two reviewers had already voted to reject. That's two edits. The third edit was undoing the bad change they accepted. The undo was also contentious, with 2 votes to reject and 3 to accept. But, Akshat has only 18 points. Even if you're lucky enough to have worthless suggested edits accepted, it's not a very good way to earn points.