User blog comment:Quipp/Badges/@comment-25133206-20141117014859/@comment-27723099-20141118152218

Badges will NOT be used to determine top contributors. Beijing, don't post information if you have no evidence for it.

As far as I know, it's not yet decided what the measurement will be but to keep it as fair as possible, special contributions should be taken into account too.

Using the total edit count is not fair because comments and type corrections are counted too. Badges also count small typo corrections and have these random "Lucky edits". Counting bytes might be a bit better but removing wrong information or shortening something to the relevant information is helpful too and not every byte means the same amount of work. I don't know if the total contributions in bytes can be seen anywhere.