Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-5158113-20131231143626/@comment-24108837-20131231170144

Yes they send a wrong message. Heavy spammers get achievement badges for spamming. And they are sometimes a bit silly. I got badges for making 100's of edits because I helped out in the category standardisation effort. Every category I added or removed counted just as much as if I would have written a whole page.

Just like undoing only 1 vandalism would help you get 100 extra pictures added (by placing back a removed armor table in 3 mouseclicks). And the bad thing is of course that the troll who removed it also got a badge for it.

According to the badges I have been the #1 wiki contributor from the 2nd week I was on here. But it is for the wrong reasons.

Maybe we shouldn't totally remove the badge system, but we should rethink what we want to reward.