User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Announcing Achievements - Edit your way to the top/@comment-1065656-20100812172320/@comment-2185457-20100817072924

I Agree... This badges only cause fluff edits, ad on a smaller wikia with 20ish people, it is hard to block everyone who does it, because doing so would mean to block ALL the users on the wikia. Personally, I would like if wikia did away completly with any kind of ranking system. i would enjoy this because I have seen friendships break up over who had the most edit points. And, it would be intresting to see how many people edit for the points to brag about, and how many edit simply to improve the wkia. If there were no edit points, I suspect many people would lose intrest in wikia, and that would not be a bad thing! Instead it would be good for wikia, because we would be rid of users who only edit for points or badges.