User blog comment:Edwin Shade/How To Become Number One On The Leaderboard/@comment-4224897-20180102225928/@comment-4224897-20180103192842

Well yeah, all that you said is why I stopped being active on this wiki, which in turn is why I only found out about this nonsense now.

Sadly, dying is what will eventually happen to any online community that isn't of a big enough size. It obviously happened here; most of the old regulars, people who genuinely cared about mathematics and researching large numbers, lost interest over time as naturally happens; a bit later than most, that happened to me. So we're left with an empty place where the old regulars occasionally talk and then every so often a new user spends a few months here before leaving.

Edwin, as is clear to me, is one of those users. I've seen his content on YouTube and on this wiki, and it seems that he does, to a degree, genuinely care about large numbers like I once did. But if he did this nonsense that makes a wiki unusable, clearly he doesn't understand the real purpose of making  wiki on this.

That said, about his "discovery", it really, really isn't anything worth cheering on. It doesn't take much of a brain—maybe minimal knowledge of how Wikia source code works—to come up with this "trick". In addition, there's no way people on other wikis like this one haven't done things like this as well.

Also, note to Edwin: I appreciate your interest in trying to properly maintain a wiki, but claiming adding and removing a thousand pointless categories to articles isn't vandalism if they're candidates for deletion demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what vandalism is. Even though those articles have that little box saying they're candidates for deletion on top, editing them with those categories still disrupts the wiki's history just as much as other articles that you claim shouldn't be vandalized. In addition, under such circumstances, it is easy for others to mistake you for a spambot, which I assume you don't want to happen to you.

Though I have little reason to care about this wiki's future, I still strongly advise that you do not use similar leaps in logic to further damage it, for the sake of the other people who still maintain it and are vocally annoyed by your doings.