User blog:TheO0032/The second of my blog posts not about lucky blovers!

The bad thing is this:

MAINSPACE EDITS.

They are like gold. For example:

You need 25 mainspace edits to vote.

You need 25 to create voting threads.

You need 100 to be rollback, regardless of wether you want the forum or MS version.

You need 100 to moderate chat.

250 to moderate forum.

500 to moderate content.

1000 to be an admin

2000 to be a b-crat. But here's the real problem:

The requirements are actually there. Yeah, it sounds decent, but here's what'll happen if someone runs for content moderator. He has 503 MS edits, and has been on the wiki for plenty of time, never blocked or banned, etc. etc. The masses vote:

Or

These are guaranteed to show up, no matter what position you are running for. If you barely meet the requirements, people are less likely to vote for you. And even if you speak your mind, if you don't have 25, you get:

If you do it again and again, you get a warning. If you try to change it, your thread gets closed. So you must get 25 to have any voice in anything.

These rules are also denying people the ability to run forums, no matter what amount of forum edits they get. And someone could waltz in with only the minimum of 500 forum edits and 1000 mainspace, and he gets these:

And these:

He'd get plenty of opposes too, but he gets a much better chance then the preferred user.

What's the point of these stupid mainspace edits anyway? To make sure that you use "based on" instead of "based off of"? WIKIA CONTRIBUTORS could find more errors then all of the staff combined!

So, that is why to drop the mainspace edit requirements.