User blog comment:New Dalek Paradigm/Why do we Compete?/@comment-1693968-20120727105052

You're the kind of editor everyone should want to be like. Seeing massive amounts of edits appear, and watching your edit count sky rocket creates a huge temptation to keep doing, and it even created a small one for me to spam. To be honest, it is fun. IDK if you're extremely competitive or not, but for people who are, it is fun for them. I used to just make edits so I could see my edit count go up, and it sure did. But then I saw what all my work did, there was even reviews on other websites about our articles, and people specifically mentioning things I did. I realized that I could make a bigger, better difference, but my edit count wouldn't go quite as high. While I still will make edits like I used to, because they need to be done, I'm not searching for them any more. I try to improve articles that are really bad, and take a long time to fix. But believe me, I'm still competing with other users. I don't think that's wrong, and I doubt I'll ever stop. If I do get so far ahead that I have nothing to compete with, I'll probably do it against myself. I doubt I'll ever stop until I retire, and I honestly don't see anything wrong with it. The only time it's wrong, is when it causes you to spam.