Board Thread:New Features/@comment-34610280-20190809073027/@comment-38078079-20190812181734

Andrewds1021 wrote: Yeah. The wiki I admin right now had an issue with a previous admin who did that. The thing is I don't think any of the other admins at the time caught on to what he was doing. To this day, he still enjoys a healthy lead on the Achievements leaderboard. It isn't that he actually contributed more content. Instead, what most of use would do as 1 to 3 edits, he would break into like 27 edits or something ridiculous like that. I've nothing to add, except that's such a pet peeve of mine!

I have the same issue on a wiki I'm on; one person raked up thousands of edits, but almost all of their edits are tiny little things. . . tweaking a punctuation mark, adding stuff like "x unknown" in stats, rewording phrases like 'black cat' into 'cat that is black'. . . despite some issues that have gone on since, they'll forever be top of the edits counts, as no one can come close, which means they're the first name that people see when searching users by edits.

It's a vanity thing, but far from useful for anyone else in the community, and - best part - that wiki didn't even have badges. . . I dread to think how much worse it'd have been with badges. Even now, on a different wiki they're on, most edits are removing links or adding odd words or other extremely minor things, so I can very much see global badges being abused.