Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4556650-20130710160107/@comment-3390396-20130710170207

I don't particularly care about achievements, and nor do I hate them with passion, being someone who has had to get used to them, or get lost.

What I do seriously hate, and I mean hate, hate about them, is people believing stupid achievements to actually rank users. 15sok, this is primarily in response to your opposition: number of edits should never matter anywhere; quality tops quantity. A user who takes 5 edits to completely rewrite a rather bad page into something quite good, in my opinion, is much better than one who takes more than 20-25 edits to do the same. Badges don't differentiate between edits as well: an edit which changes a typo, and one that completely rewrites the plot of an article are treated equally. I myself admit to have begun as a badge editor, i.e., an editor editing mainly for badges, but have most certainly learned better than to continue it.

As for the point that they don't cause much damage, I'll have to disagree. Badges have definitely instigated noticeable unnecessary editing all over Wikia. They also do not display a user's hard work - they are merely superficial displays of the same.