User blog comment:3primetime3/Disabling Achievements???/@comment-12690164-20141016114628

Badges can motivate users to edit, and do good edits. When badges are gone, maybe all the users will stop editing due to lack of motivation, and the worst, a dip in our wiki's WAM score. Lefty also spent HOURS creating badges. Those who made unnecessary edits should just be punished. We could not 'let a few bad apples ruin the bunch for everyone', which is what Lefty stated.