Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27873943-20140317034744/@comment-5588400-20140322205431

I dunno. I feel as though the editors here gain enough recognition via promotions and whatnot. It is true that people will always make gibberish edits and blogs, I feel like badges will increase this. Also, perhaps it's just me, but the badges always gave me a little bit of anxiety/stress. As Zoe said, the badges like "Editing for X Days in a row" would tempt me to edit for the sake of keeping the streak going which could result in pointless/unimportant edits. I especially hated it when I did do an edit, but because my timezone isn't UTC (so it would appear to me that I have done one that day, but to the wiki's clock, I didn't), it didn't count and then the counter restarted.

As the show goes on hiatus for long periods, I have a feeling this will be when the most the badge-hunting will happen.

DS and Russ have valid points for wanting them back. TBH, if they're put back on, I won't complain. I'll just ignore it.