User blog:3primetime3/Disabling Achievements???



Hello everyone,

I'm blogging about a serious matter on reforms of the wiki. And yes, I think you can tell by the title: Should badges be disabled on this wiki? Yes, I'm dead serious.

Recently I have seen various cases of tampering the leaderboards by making small and useless to earn badges in just a few minutes. And the leaderboards do not present a good tally of who contributes the most on the wiki (and also edit count does not help this situation either). Even I was guilty quite a few times for taking advantage of the lucky candy badge (which comes every one thousand edits) and duplicating badges to up my points in the achievement board (see the top six moonstruck badges that were for the same achievement). I'll admit to it (you can see by the last few badges I have earned). I have also been accidentally upping my category count (which I did not notice) until another admin pointed it out to me. If we really want to show who currently did the most work around here, leaderboards, or even do not prove it. Someone can create a full page flawlessly for one edit, and another can add one letter and get the same credit in both edit count and badge count.

Who brought the levels templates to the wiki? Who created the background? And who created the wiki? Yes, you know it. It's Imamadmad, Wildoneshelper, and Lefty7788! And are they at the top of the list? I really wonder why they are not shown at the top of the leaderboards...

The chaos with badges has to end soon. They aren't really a game anymore - it's creating too much new competition that this wiki is not really a wiki that one can edit because they want to. And so I pose this question. Should they be deleted? To show your stance, please type Support or Oppose in the comments section with a legitimate reason. Votes without a reason will not be counted into the blog post.

I WILL NOT be adding/editing any categories and/or pictures and will make the minimal amount of edits a day until the question is resolved and I don't accidentally activate another badge.

Updated count at approximately 16 Oct 2014 at 03:45 (UTC):

1. User:3primetime3:  For the reasons above.