User blog:Roads/Roads' Ideas - The Big Badge Option

You should be able to opt out of being part of the Achievements system in your user Preferences.

I mean, I'm #1 on Ben 10 Fan Fiction. It's been that way for a long time. I didn't even try! And it may make the new users think that they edited like crazy to get that way, and they should spam, too. That, or it makes them lose hope and maybe not edit.

So yeah.