User blog:Glass Heart/Disable Achievement Badges

Hello everyone. Glass Heart here. I've been deciding on this for months and I've decided that now's the time to say it out, regardless of how people would think. As the title of this blog suggests, I believe that we should disable special badges on this wiki. Those of you who might not understand, the badges are the ones you receive for things like "adding 50 images to an article" or "staying active on the wiki for two weeks".

Now you might be asking why I object to the badges. The reason is that they are unnecessary and they don't actually do much good on the wiki. Sure, it increases editing for users because they want badges, but I see a lot of unnecessary edits sometimes that can be bordered on ridicule. That's why I made the blog post on new policies earlier last month, because I don't think VK wiki should have users editing only for the sake of personal pride. This is Wikia, not facebook or youtube or twitter. We're not a social networking site, no matter how many people look at it.

I would like some feedback from the users here about this suggestion. I'll give it two weeks, so this discussion will be open until the 14th of June this year. Everyone is free to speak their mind, as long as they don't spam, blockcase, or curse excessively. If you oppose this idea, state VALID reasons. Don't say anything like, "This is so unfair! Badges are cool!" because that's not valid. That's an opinion.

Last year, we had some users requesting badges because they saw it on other wikis and thought it looked good. The active admin at the time, Cotton-chan, liked the idea and decided to activate the badge system. I'm truly not against badges. I just believe that they're not going to help people on this wiki, which is already in need of help.