User blog comment:Trellar/Achievements Unlocked/@comment-1997905-20111010202625

I've always found achievements to be more of a problem than an aide - I find that they tend to encourage editing for the sake of achievements, rather than actual content building. That is to say, the fundamental problem with achievements is that you can't assign a numerical value to content quality - it's too ambiguous. The idea that a user can get as many points spamming pages as they can adding actual content doesn't seem right to me, albeit not a problem that can necessarily be fixed.