Thread:Hurricane Lars1/@comment-38090196-20200122222120/@comment-44473893-20200123002105

Ok, so, do note I do not want to start a confrontation I will just be mentioning this piece of information. Ok, so, I would just like to voice my concern about one of the main causes of this warning from what I can see; in this case, that would be the description of this as an edit race in the forums. I would just like to say that that description appears to be a misunderstanding, though an understandable one. Though Jon brought up this in the forums and appears to only mention it in forums, this was intended to be beneficial to all parties, HHW included. This race is NOT exclusive to the forums and I will admit that it is my fault for not seeing the loophole that forums provided, instead, this was designed to be a race on articles and getting the most done. Now, with that out of the way, onto the second piece of information I'd like to discuss:

Ok, so, now for the main part: I'd like to voice my concerns over the critical concern that both you and SM discussed; the potential devolution of this edit race into edit farming. While I do see where you are coming from, when Jon and I discussed the idea in our Discord, I mainly brought up how edit farming is a no-go and out of the two main rules I put, the first one was "1. No Edit Farming Whatsoever". As, prior to starting this, I knew that edit farming is against the guidelines and it would ruin the experience. I also planned on enforcing that rule specifically, for instance, yesterday when Andreka started going insane with edits and earlier today on what was borderline edit farming, I repremanded him in my Discord and he promised not to do it again. I do not intend on putting the blame on any one person. So, now onto the main idea of this paragraph; I also do not agree with warning a person over a potential issue, while I am aware that you were not aware of the specific details relating to this, I feel that a potential issue does not yet warrant a warning.

Ok, so, (I really need some original wording) I would like to discuss about your statement of "I have noticed it is not as apparent as the past 2 days...". When it comes to the last two days, while I did spend a lot of time in comments I also spent a lot of time, even more time, in fact, on a full article and fully contributing to a real article. Yesterday, yes, I did spent time on comments and forums, but I do feel that spending time on forums and comments isn't necessarily edit farming, especially where I was at. I spent at least a good 3-4 hours editing a full article and making large edits, especially and primarily on my 2020 season, out of around 4-5 hours of total editing.

As a continuation of the previous point, especially focusing on today and 2 days ago, most of my edits were also primarily focused on uploading storm sims and tracks and working fast-speed on my article. For statistics, 2 days ago, I made a total of 42 edits, only 13 actually were in forums. That is only 30.9% of the edits for that day; that might sound like a lot, but that is still 29 edits on real articles. Now looking at today (now technically yesterday), I made 24 edits, 8 of which were in forums and comments. Still 33% of edits that day, but the remaining 16 are focused on working on my 2020 article. This alone should prove that I am trying to maintain a level of integrity and avoidance of edit farming. You might point out about January 21, 2020. That day, I made 66 edits, of which 23 are on forums, or 34.8% of the edits that day. That might sound bad, but that is also 43 edits main articles that day. Over the course of the past 3 days, only 33% are in forums and comments. That should, by this phase, prove that I maintain a level of integrity and going back to the original point, I feel that warning me isn't necessarily justified yet as the foundation for this is iffy as it is describing a possible future event and it just frankly isn't the case even during my spike over last weekend.

I can go on further, but I don't feel like typing a 7 paragraph essay and I think you get the point by now. Thank you for reading and I hope you understand where I come from. I will repeat myself, I do not wish to start a major confrontation but I am simply voicing my concerns. Tusen takk!