User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/4000th Edit special: Dawn of the Silver Age, and a proposal to the Admins/@comment-1874924-20110924013730

Toad has passed me, probably for good, to become #10 on the list of most active editors by edit count. This was no surprise, because he racks up edits faster than I do. (Maintaining the character pages for multiple competition stories will do that.) Although my own time on the Top 10 list proved fleeting--barely 3 weeks--I can honestly say I've done it.

When I first cracked the Top 25 back in June 2010 (which in those days required less than 750 edits--now it takes 1800 edits) I didn't expect to get higher than about #22 because the gaps in edit counts started increasing substantially at that point. Regrettably, the main reason I rose so high is that several of the veterans who were above me became inactive for varying periods of time. Some are still inactive, although others have since returned.