Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-4022888-20140125050416/@comment-366087-20140125054629

I've seen those terms, as well as others such as badge/points/achievement-scamming, -spamming, or -mining. Sometimes just Editcounting.

If you are making a policy about it, you can just pick a term, define it as such, and that will be your wiki's local terminology for it.

While I agree that permabans are often handed out far too easily, the issue here is that each edit made is reflected in the WikiActivity and RecentChanges. So take a contributor who makes 20 edits back-to-back-to-back on the *same* article… multiply that by say 10 articles in a session… multiply *that* by 20 more users doing the same thing…

You can see how easily it can get out of hand. Making a few edits to the same article because of finding an error… use of Preview or not, there are just some things which the brain is unable to see until a "submit" button is clicked… is one thing, to do it intentionally is another.

To *allow* it will set a precedent which can lead to the example above and flooding of Activity and Recent logs, and as an Admin let me tell you, you'll not want to have to scroll through the lengths of such pages in search of what happened 2 hours ago, much less 2 days ago.