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

Hello everyone. This time, we will be discussing about the badges. What are the badges? Click Here: Special:Leaderboard.

After some serious discussion with Unok, I have also decided that the badges system isn't very beneficial and good to the wiki. We are facing a problem where people are purposely making more edits than needed in order to gain more more points and achievements. For example, when you can add 5 images all at once with "one edit", you add then one by one instead. This is spamming, and clogs up the Recent Changes.

Although the badges can motivate people to edit more, people who seriously enjoy editing on wikia, do not really need the badges system to motivate them.

To conclude, I would like to remove the Badges/Achievements systems.

Before doing so, I would like other users to state their opinions.

Oh brother, there's gonna be more argument debating  