Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-4022888-20140125050416

I have a user in one of my admin'd wiki making needessly minor edits one by one, causing them to spam up the history with all those pointless, detached editing. I'm so annoyed right now because it's filling up the history of them, making sure that all the people could see in the history is them, them, them. When I think about it, it's annoying and I'm telling you, people always read the cover of the book and never look further mostly.

But with all my wiki browsing, I then stumble upon a term that matches my concern: "Badge Hunting." Or...is it called "Pointsgaming?" I don't know. I can't tell what the wikia community is generally made up of. I know how it works, but I don't actually know the name of the term. Well what I know is that it's the act of making needlessly pointless edits. Is that right? Well then I don't like it. It's just going to hog the entire history with their name on it. Still, I want to know more about this.

The only terms I learned so far in my wikia browsing is "Badge Hunting" and "Pointsgaming." So...what is the general term of this? I'd like to know more about this so I could try to draft a new policy of this for my admin comrades in order to prevent such a spammitive event of that. It's so that I could keep my wiki clean and neat with organized edits in one in the history, even if not supported with an edit summary (though I should say that nobody ever does that at all).

In my opinion, however, I should say that I am against people who hate people doing it for the achievements. It's just plain ignorance. Just don't know why. It appeared on most wikis and many admins are heavily enforcing this, sometimes going too far with it by permabanning them without any other offenses they've commited. 