User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Announcing Achievements - Edit your way to the top/@comment-1577075-20100814064350

I'm rather ambivalent about badges - I contributed before and will continue to do so with their new availability. I think that a contributor like myself (who works in spurts, rather than long, tedious periods) may be motivated to actually add a few extra edits to their workload if they're close to earning some new "flair".