Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24210732-20140215215306/@comment-24325144-20140216103603

I agree with Sky. While badges may bring about badge-hunting it gives people a sense of accompishment for what they have done for their time. Without the badges feature people wouldn't know how much Tim, Tomb, Jimeee, or the other admins have really done for this wiki. Badges also show how much other users have done in the same way, & like Sky said they encourage users to edit more. It also encourages users to become more active in the community as a whole. They already have the badge-hunting policy, if users do it then they get blocked. There isn't a need in my opinion to remove it, just because some people abuse the feature.