Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-11008902-20141226235147/@comment-14027812-20150121101159

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, in 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 bages won't really help, what would help is to have a effective edit-reviewing task force. This for me would settle the discussion.