Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-452-20141015211337/@comment-5558012-20141016132950

I guess I will be the first to be all out against achievements (as I am article comments). The biggest reason I am against them is due to the fact that they encourage editors to edit specific things even if such edits are no longer needed for badges (I know there are editing tracks but not every wiki bothers to change the defaults due to ignorance, lack of experience, time). I'd rather someone edit because it needs to be done rather for someone to move up a leaderboard. A large flaw of achievements is that they can't detect quality, just quantity, of edits. They also can't be removed without permanently blocking someone (which is likely too extreme especially if they are a good editor when not trying for badges, additionally a temporary block is a temporary, partial solution and at best can curve someone's actions) so if someone earns some unfairly, it skews the entire board to mean even less. There are other efficient ways to recognize users for their work. One such was is through Featured User of the Month or other such titles.