User blog comment:Jack Pistol/Chat Mod Promotion Request: Albert Spark and Voxelplox/@comment-7672935-20130406204420/@comment-2084412-20130406205520

No, that is a horrible comparison. Money is not equivalent to edits. You are a brand new user, and your edit count expresses that. It is a rule for users to have a certain amount of edits to vote because they want experienced users to be voting, not brand new users ( no offence ). Otherwise, Pearson or O'malley could just get a bunch of accounts, name them decent enough, and have them all vote to get a sockpuppet promoted, and then when the site didn't allow it, they'd pull the "your community majority voted support" card.