Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-11008902-20141226235147/@comment-14027812-20150121164331

I'm not saying to focus on ad hominem, I'm just asking you to look at the bigger picture, as one of the things Ned does on the original post is to call the badges system "pointless and lame", and I'd like you to know why he thinks so, for the sake of discussion. I've made no accusation either, I've merely told the facts.

False accusations of badgehunting are a violation of a part of every wiki's etiquette when viewing edits: assume good faith. It's true, an edit is an edit, no matter how small. The solution? People have always forgotten to assume good faith, perhaps because they see a lot of vandalism and bad editing and get the wrong idea when they see a very small addition. This is a mistake people will keep on doing, it's up to the staff and more experienced editors to remind them of the good faith principle.