User blog comment:The Anonymous User/An Anonymous Chronicle: 2000 Edits/@comment-1874924-20110813071500

Congratulations, TAU, on 2000 edits. I see you've got another milestone coming up, with your 2nd wikiversary next month.

As for the FA/FU thing, I remember that people tended to see you, rightly or wrongly, as mainly a "Sprink groupie" (as somebody described you). I also remember that a lot of people reacted to the name change from FA to FU about as well as the TDA contestants did to "Courtney's Rules", because they saw it as a change made specifically for you. Ironic, that, because (as I have noted elsewhere) I think that I was actually the first beneficiary of the change, having completed only one short story when I was Featured in July 2010. (Granted, that one story had a huge impact, but still...) I had done other things, though, which might have gone unacknowledged under the old FA regime.

The real reason I made such a point of how the FA/FU change benefited me was that I was trying to defuse some of the resentment toward the change, since even then it was apparent that people were inclined to listen to what I had to say. Although I have no evidence of it, I like to think that this made some contribution, however indirect, to your eventual FU win. More directly, I did my best to explain my reasoning with my supporting votes--something I do with most of my Feature voting--because I was trying to persuade people to my way of thinking.

Anyway, I know you mainly read and comment on competition stories, and I'm doing my level best to give you a juicy competition story to comment on. In the meantime, on to 3000!