Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-11008902-20141226235147/@comment-1738746-20150121034850

The Rim of the Sky wrote: I often look at the wiki activity and we don't get any badgehunters. Minuscle/unneeded edits are pretty much just done once for a 10 point badge, and usually one of the very few the editor has. If it's not needed/shouldn't be there the edit is often undone/rollbacked. Actually, just yesterday I highlighted a potential badgehunting user to a patroller (see their blog post for evidence regarding that) so some badge hunting does occur. Yes if the edit isn't needed, it can be rollbacked but I'm sure there would be less of these menial tasks to do if we were potentially not encouraging them to make those types of edits via the Badge system. Again, I don't know what the statistics really show considering Timeoin's comment, but it's a possibility that the Badge system attracts more poor edits than good ones (or worse, vandalism).

All that aside, none of this addresses the issue of some members being falsely accused of badge hunting. I haven't been accused on this Wiki in particular, but I have on another and it's a hurtful experience. Ned1230 has pointed out that he's been accused of badge hunting on this Wiki in particular, so these types of things do happen on this Wiki too. Perhaps, if not removing the Leaderboard, then addressing the Badge Hunting policy in particular, making the accusation process more strict such as having to provide concrete evidence rather than just "this member is making minor edits"?