User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Introducing Editor Rewards/@comment-33328179-20190901152047

I know I'm probably echoing what others have already said, but here's what I think:

This reward system may have started out with the best intentions - to encourage people to contribute high quality content - but I believe that while users might try extra-hard in the beginning, this might lead to eventual disappointment and frustration, causing users to quit. It may even cause users to spam and vandalize wikis to try to game the system. And the more hard-working users, when they see others being singled out and rewarded, it would cause jealously; especially if they see that the rewarded users did less/the same amount of work compared to themselves. Also, when they see that no matter how hard they've tried, they never seem to be recognized for their efforts, this might lead to them quitting.