Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-11008902-20141226235147/@comment-4984687-20150121105725

Bluesonic1 wrote:

Sky Above,Voice Within wrote: It also seems to me that most of you are looking at the original poster's suggestion from the wrong angle. Ned has made countless of really, really uncalled for additions, some of which I myself had reverted, you just have to see his talk page archives. This problem of interpretation aside, I very much agree with Atvelonis' view.

Something I've not realized earlier, though, is that the main argument for removing the badges system is that it brings more poor edits than good ones. Even if that may be true, which we don't really know, I strongly believe that, quite obviously, good edits are worth a thousand times more than bad ones. If the system were to be removed, the wiki would be stripped of those good edits, and, mind you, still have bad edits. Bad edits are a certified occurrence in the wiki-life and removing badges won't really help; what would help is to have a effective edit-reviewing task force. This for me would settle the discussion, as I think you have more important wiki-related matters to attend to. That comment's a liiiiittle bit personal to be honest, which kind of highlights the whole accusation thing I keep reiterating.

Alright, let's say for arguments sake that the badge system really does bring in more good edits than bad (this particular point is going no where as it's one person's opinion over another without official statistical confirmation), there is still another issue that needs addressing that people keep ignoring me on; how do we deal with false accusations of badge hunting?? I'm all for not making multiple edits on an article so close together as it clogs up the Recent Activity page and technically is unnecessary- there is a preview/review button. But grammar nazis like me who are just casually reading through pages, and spot an error (or a formatting error) get stinged for "a pointless edit that looks like you're badge hunting". 2 other users near the top of this thread have highlighted the same point I'm making about badge hunting rules to be better written out/better enforced. I don't see how that's any personal, literally half of Ned's archived messages are about his pointless edits.

We've already addressed how to deal with badgehunters: Let them off with a warning the first time, but if they purposely do it again they should be temporarily banned.