Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-11008902-20141226235147/@comment-4984687-20150121043715

Bluesonic1 wrote:

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"? I'm aware of what the user did, but it was not just that they badgehunted, it was that they made an article on their "theory" instead of a forum post. This user only got 3 badges adding up to 30 points, that's not exactly going to help their leaderboard rank go that far, even though he made a blog post for the sole purpose of obtaining a badge.

I saw that they broke the policies and guidelines and tagged their article for deletion. Pelinal and Owen later informed the user of their disregard of the rules.

I have also been accused of badgehunting on the wiki, though it was because I was making a lot of ESO NPC pages, I later explained it to the accuser and he understood why I was doing it.

Like I said earlier, should any pointless contributions (like AAAGamer's) occur, we're there to fix them. Just because there are a few abusers it doesn't mean it's something we can't handle.