User blog:Followed by 100 zeroes/Another day, another userpage edit

I started a discussion on Kjhf's talk concerning the overdone editing on userpages. I'll bet you that about one in every two edits is somehow related to a shop. That's right. Even worse, a very large percentage of the editors here have over 50% of their edits in the User: namespace. What ever happened to the good old days, where we used to work tirelessly refining and shaping all the encyclopedia articles? You'd think we're a social networking system as opposed to a wiki. This has been appalling me recently, and ...

End of rant. Sorry for yammering on up there, but the increasingly frequent userpage edits are indeed frustrating. In short, the User: namespace is taking over the wiki.