Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27873943-20140317034744/@comment-5691231-20140317221912

Actually, Ced made that choice all by himself last year. When he was making decisions alone without others' input. Just one of the many things that led up to his demotion.

There's something else I should've added - and that is that I don't really care if people edit just for the sake of badges. As long as the edits are productive, then who are they bothering? I feel the entire reason we're upset with those who badge-hunt is because we either don't want them exceeding the amount of badges we have ourselves - or we just don't want them being at the top of Special:Leaderboard. Both would be very self-centered reasons to keep the badges disabled.

I've opposed the removal of the badges the last time to, and was rather angry that I never had the chance to voice my opinion about them because the current bureaucrat at that time made decisions without our input.