User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Announcing Achievements - Edit your way to the top/@comment-961279-20100814155153

It seems that badges would be more of a benefit to the kids that like trinkets and rewards, whereas adults are probably more interested in editing to improve their wiki. Or to any person that gets that kind of feedback/ego boost through the MMOs that they play like World of Warcraft.

So like anything, this is a feature that could be abused. But for the wikis that were successful, what did you do that made it successful? What advice can you offer to other wikis that are considering activating the badges?

For instance, did you limit the point value of a blog comment to encourage editing articles? Did you have people that were dedicated enough to go through the Recent Changes on a regular basis to fix the fluff edits? Something else?

There's a lot of "do not want" comments here. Let's hear examples of how it can (and does) work.