User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Introducing Editor Rewards/@comment-1807002-20190830210750

Even though you are not giving criteria out, it wouldn't hurt to give some guidelines of what an 'ideal editor' is to help inspire healthy user behavior. We all know even good editors are not exactly good editors in a community setting.

I am sure that unfriendly anti-collaborative selfish community-toxic users will be excluded no matter how much they edit, contribute- even if by stat standards are considered the best. And the staff may never admit this (for self-preservation). It is probably good as both self-protection and prevention of exploitation, edit wars, jealousy issues etc. that might arise. It is completely staffs prerogative which is kinda nice, however, not perfect either.

I know I have left a community just because one admin was one of the most unpleasant individual without being actually flagable (and I am no peach either!) and I still (years later) see often people complain about their behavior on CC, accused of being unfair, mean, a tyrant etc. etc. (which a bit over the top IMO, they just didn't make what I think is a healthy community).

To be honest I don't know if excluding or including these types of people would be good either way. Both has their pros and cons. But at the end of the day- do you really want to see someone who made your life miserable on a wiki (which you had to leave because of them) got 'Editor of the Month'? But they weren't bad enough to complain to staff about- I'd be disheartened, crushed and might lose faith in the wikia staff to blatantly over look that.

But by that it probably would condemn myself as a candidate too. I am abrasive, defensive (due to all the experience of unpleasant individuals), confrontational to staff but I have been editing for about 8+ years many wikis I have been on still have templates, infoboxes, design, information, etc. I was responsible for. I have been praised to complained about. And I do not think I am poster child for this new feature at all but if this even even improves some editors behavior for the good- it would be worth it. I just hope it doesn't make worse ones.