User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Introducing Editor Rewards/@comment-9605025-20190901045854

I am echoing some of the concerns other have already mentioned. In short, I am skeptical of how successful this will be and concerned this will just encourage pointless edits/valdalism.

As far as I can tell, it is just plain not possible for someone to go through and manually check everyone's edits. That being the case, there are two options: manually check edits for major editors on major wikis or have some sort of automated tallying system. The issue with option 1 is that there may be undue motivation to edi the major wikis and ignore the smaller ones. Also, determining major editors and major wikis would likely need to involve some automated tallying; thus it would be suceptable to the same issue as option 2. As for option 2, I am concerned it would be too suceptable to abuse as is the case with the Achievements extension. Simple metrics such as edit cout can be unduely infalted m=by making micro-edits. The wiki I admin has a past admin who did this. What most of us would do in 1-3 edits, he would do in 20+ edits. This, of course, helped him speed through the achievements faster than anyone else as well as increase his change of getting things such as the lucky edit badge. To this day, he enjoys a confortable lead of several thousand points depesite not being active for years.

Another issue I am concerned about is that publically announcing these is likely to contribute to favoritism; which of course could incluence future picks for editor of the month. I know it is an entirely different system, but I used to help out on Yahoo Answers. There, the number of "accepted answers" a user has recieved is publically displayed right nect to their reply. On more than several occassions, I, or someone else relatively new, would provide the correct answer. Then, hours later, a veteran would come by and post the same answer. Guess who got awarded the "accepted answer".

Look, I am not saying the idea as a whole is bad. I am just telling you what I currently view to be some potental major pitholes such a system could run into. - Edit:

I forgot to mention, I think adding monetarily significant prizes will exacerbate the issues I mentioned above as users will have monetary motivation to game the system.