Thread:Mathmagician/@comment-4476879-20120910235217/@comment-188432-20120918165108

As of this writing, we have 16 users who've earned the badge at w:c:tardis. As a percentage of people who've edited at our wiki since Achievements were enaled, that's pretty lousy. But then again, it's a hidden badge, so few people know abou it.

It's a shame that it's hidden, too, because it's a fantastic idea for an award on wikis that are constantly getting new pages. What it does is reward people for jumping in and refining an article right at the start of that article's life, so that (hopefully) it more quickly comes up to site standards.

I call it the "forgotten" award, because it wasn't even working for a good long while, and no one even bothered to complain about it. Finally, though, some of us twigged that something was wrong and reported the problem at Admin Forum:"Pounce!" Secret Achievement.

Mathmagician's assessment of the badge is correct, but I would add that it's one of the few terminal, or end-of-track, badges that it's not rewinnable, which makes no sense to me. On the one hand they reward people ad infinitum for adding categories to pages – which users massively and constantly abuse — but they don't reward people for early editing of articles — which is something that would be relatively more difficult to exploit.