User blog comment:Brainulator9/Update Wikia!/@comment-3080486-20110615023627/@comment-2194058-20110615075851

Agreed with Nobody Cares. It's best to ask the community before creating a new track. You should also have a badge policy. If not, just work the way you normally would want the community to earn badges. If you think badges should be disabled, just go to the wiki's Wikia Labs. If you really want it disabled, just ask Wikia if they can try disabling it fully.

I'm quite active on this wiki. If a user just makes edit for badges, I tell them to earn them the correct way. If not, then it's a block for disobeying the Badge Policy under the wiki's Wiki Rules. We also have Edit Tracks for categories that have tons of articles in it. That way, those articles won't feel abandoned and would be more focused for badge collectors.

But my main point is: just disable the Achievements in Wikia Labs if you don't want badges or just ignore earning the badges.