Revisions to Is it acceptable for users to only gain reputation through a plethora of tiny edits?

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To what extent is it acceptable for a user to only gain reputation through minor edits? This is a question somewhat in reply to: Is it acceptable to make small edits?

I noticed this user this user has gained almost all of his rep through small edits (capitalization of words, mostly). On the one hand that's fine; as long as he's making AskUbuntu better, who cares? But then I saw the top answer of the aforementioned question, which stated:

if you don't yet have enough reputation so your edits need to be reviewed by others, then you should avoid edits that are small and unimportant

All of his edits still have to be reviewed by others. However, he's almost on a 1000 rep after only one month. Fairly soon he'll be able to make edits without them being reviewed by others even though he hasn't really proven himself to be either knowledgeable or very trustworthy; he's only made lots of tiny edits that could arguably be done by a bot.

To be fair, his edits are apparently getting accepted so should we think "don't hate the player, hate the game", or is this a bit of an unfair way of getting lots of reputation and should we be worried about future abuse?

To what extent is it acceptable for a user to only gain reputation through minor edits? This is a question somewhat in reply to: Is it acceptable to make small edits?

I noticed this user has gained almost all of his rep through small edits (capitalization of words, mostly). On the one hand that's fine; as long as he's making AskUbuntu better, who cares? But then I saw the top answer of the aforementioned question, which stated:

if you don't yet have enough reputation so your edits need to be reviewed by others, then you should avoid edits that are small and unimportant

All of his edits still have to be reviewed by others. However, he's almost on a 1000 rep after only one month. Fairly soon he'll be able to make edits without them being reviewed by others even though he hasn't really proven himself to be either knowledgeable or very trustworthy; he's only made lots of tiny edits that could arguably be done by a bot.

To be fair, his edits are apparently getting accepted so should we think "don't hate the player, hate the game", or is this a bit of an unfair way of getting lots of reputation and should we be worried about future abuse?

To what extent is it acceptable for a user to only gain reputation through minor edits? This is a question somewhat in reply to: Is it acceptable to make small edits?

I noticed this user has gained almost all of his rep through small edits (capitalization of words, mostly). On the one hand that's fine; as long as he's making AskUbuntu better, who cares? But then I saw the top answer of the aforementioned question, which stated:

if you don't yet have enough reputation so your edits need to be reviewed by others, then you should avoid edits that are small and unimportant

All of his edits still have to be reviewed by others. However, he's almost on a 1000 rep after only one month. Fairly soon he'll be able to make edits without them being reviewed by others even though he hasn't really proven himself to be either knowledgeable or very trustworthy; he's only made lots of tiny edits that could arguably be done by a bot.

To be fair, his edits are apparently getting accepted so should we think "don't hate the player, hate the game", or is this a bit of an unfair way of getting lots of reputation and should we be worried about future abuse?

Rollback to Revision 1

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edited May 21, 2013 at 8:50

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To what extent is it acceptable for a user to only gain reputation through minor edits? This is a question somewhat in reply to: Is it acceptable to make small edits?

I noticed some userthis user has gained almost all of his reputationrep through small edits (capitalization of words, mostly). On the one hand that's fine; as long as he's making AskUbuntu better, who cares? But then I saw the top answer of the aforementioned question, which stated:

if you don't yet have enough reputation so your edits need to be reviewed by others, then you should avoid edits that are small and unimportant

All of his edits still have to be reviewed by others. However, he's almost on a 1000 reputationrep after only one month. Fairly soon he'll be able to make edits without them being reviewed by others even though he hasn't really proven himself to be either knowledgeable or very trustworthy; he's only made lots of tiny edits that could arguably be done by a bot.

To be fair, his edits are apparently getting accepted so should we think "don't hate the player, hate the game", or is this a bit of an unfair way of getting lots of reputation and should we be worried about future abuse?

To what extent is it acceptable for a user to only gain reputation through minor edits? This is a question somewhat in reply to: Is it acceptable to make small edits?

I noticed some user has gained almost all of his reputation through small edits (capitalization of words, mostly). On the one hand that's fine; as long as he's making AskUbuntu better, who cares? But then I saw the top answer of the aforementioned question, which stated:

if you don't yet have enough reputation so your edits need to be reviewed by others, then you should avoid edits that are small and unimportant

All of his edits still have to be reviewed by others. However, he's almost on a 1000 reputation after only one month. Fairly soon he'll be able to make edits without them being reviewed by others even though he hasn't really proven himself to be either knowledgeable or very trustworthy; he's only made lots of tiny edits that could arguably be done by a bot.

To be fair, his edits are apparently getting accepted so should we think "don't hate the player, hate the game", or is this a bit of an unfair way of getting lots of reputation and should we be worried about future abuse?

To what extent is it acceptable for a user to only gain reputation through minor edits? This is a question somewhat in reply to: Is it acceptable to make small edits?

I noticed this user has gained almost all of his rep through small edits (capitalization of words, mostly). On the one hand that's fine; as long as he's making AskUbuntu better, who cares? But then I saw the top answer of the aforementioned question, which stated:

if you don't yet have enough reputation so your edits need to be reviewed by others, then you should avoid edits that are small and unimportant

All of his edits still have to be reviewed by others. However, he's almost on a 1000 rep after only one month. Fairly soon he'll be able to make edits without them being reviewed by others even though he hasn't really proven himself to be either knowledgeable or very trustworthy; he's only made lots of tiny edits that could arguably be done by a bot.

To be fair, his edits are apparently getting accepted so should we think "don't hate the player, hate the game", or is this a bit of an unfair way of getting lots of reputation and should we be worried about future abuse?

Rollback to Revision 4 - Spelling, removed link to the user that doesn't have the characteristics from the question

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edited May 21, 2013 at 8:46

Radu Rădeanu

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To what extent is it acceptable for a user to only gain reputation through minor edits? This is a question somewhat in reply to: Is it acceptable to make small edits?

I noticed this usersome user has gained almost all of his repreputation through small edits (capitalization of words, mostly). On the one hand that's fine; as long as he's making AskUbuntu better, who cares? But then I saw the top answer of the aforementioned question, which stated:

if you don't yet have enough reputation so your edits need to be reviewed by others, then you should avoid edits that are small and unimportant

All of his edits still have to be reviewed by others. However, he's almost on a 1000 repreputation after only one month. Fairly soon he'll be able to make edits without them being reviewed by others even though he hasn't really proven himself to be either knowledgeable or very trustworthy; he's only made lots of tiny edits that could arguably be done by a bot.

To be fair, his edits are apparently getting accepted so should we think "don't hate the player, hate the game", or is this a bit of an unfair way of getting lots of reputation and should we be worried about future abuse?

To what extent is it acceptable for a user to only gain reputation through minor edits? This is a question somewhat in reply to: Is it acceptable to make small edits?

I noticed this user has gained almost all of his rep through small edits (capitalization of words, mostly). On the one hand that's fine; as long as he's making AskUbuntu better, who cares? But then I saw the top answer of the aforementioned question, which stated:

if you don't yet have enough reputation so your edits need to be reviewed by others, then you should avoid edits that are small and unimportant

All of his edits still have to be reviewed by others. However, he's almost on a 1000 rep after only one month. Fairly soon he'll be able to make edits without them being reviewed by others even though he hasn't really proven himself to be either knowledgeable or very trustworthy; he's only made lots of tiny edits that could arguably be done by a bot.

To be fair, his edits are apparently getting accepted so should we think "don't hate the player, hate the game", or is this a bit of an unfair way of getting lots of reputation and should we be worried about future abuse?

To what extent is it acceptable for a user to only gain reputation through minor edits? This is a question somewhat in reply to: Is it acceptable to make small edits?

I noticed some user has gained almost all of his reputation through small edits (capitalization of words, mostly). On the one hand that's fine; as long as he's making AskUbuntu better, who cares? But then I saw the top answer of the aforementioned question, which stated:

if you don't yet have enough reputation so your edits need to be reviewed by others, then you should avoid edits that are small and unimportant

All of his edits still have to be reviewed by others. However, he's almost on a 1000 reputation after only one month. Fairly soon he'll be able to make edits without them being reviewed by others even though he hasn't really proven himself to be either knowledgeable or very trustworthy; he's only made lots of tiny edits that could arguably be done by a bot.

To be fair, his edits are apparently getting accepted so should we think "don't hate the player, hate the game", or is this a bit of an unfair way of getting lots of reputation and should we be worried about future abuse?