Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24210732-20140215215306/@comment-3076045-20140216140908

- Sorry, but this is one I need to oppose quite strongly, since I'm one of the few people here that was around before we implemented the Achievement/Badge system. The whole reason we have it in the first place is to give users an incentive to edit on the mainspace articles. Yes, it is completely superficial, and doesn't really mean anything. Neither do the ones on Xbox, or Playstation, etc.

If that doesn't do it for you, lets go with statistics. Statistically, they are important from our site. The month we introduced them, we had 3 times the number of edits from the previous month. We also had a tenfold increase in the number of editors (Both single edit and 5-or-more editors).