Thread:Veenster7/@comment-5558012-20161229181503

Hey Veenster7, I just wanted to bring this to your attention in case you haven't noticed. Typically I would just sit on my thoughts until they are necessary (such as a possible promotion), but I wanted to make note of this now because I find it a little sickening for people to do this. Whether or not this is brought up on the wiki is your choice.

After I noticed some controversial reversions taking place I began looking at diffs and was going to possibly mention edit consolidation to the offending user (good practice as to not flood a page's history with edits that could be done in one or two edits). As I was looking I began noticing recently suspicious editing such as this group and this group consisting of individual space edits (many more instances like this) so I looked at badges and sure enough the user is on the leaderboard, quite high for a new user). I then found larger sets of minor and/or contradictory edits that occurred in short periods of time like these 113 edits and these 32 edits (again more not mentioned here). These large sets lead to this thread, which I'm surprised no one addressed, and it's clear these and the previous edits were motivated to get to 2,000. This set is a mound of icing on the cake, involving edits purposely causing problems so the user could slowly fix them.

Finding these edits says a number about the individual and I personally would block them (initially I would have talked about the edits but there's so much that something should be done as a consequence). Regardless, I don't think this user should ever be promoted, if that was one of the reasons for making so many edits of this nature (I can't say for certain if badge hunting was a motivation). 