Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1196539-20131221183156/@comment-24486926-20131221184609

The badges do encourage competition, yes.

And pursuit of them is by no means just a punishable offense. It's pursuit of them in the wrong way that's punishable.

For example, the badge for getting a blog post:

Wrong Way:

I'm an achievement whore.

 I did it for the points.

Right way:

A little about myself.

I'm doing this for the badge, but I'm going to tell a little about myself. I like cats, ponies, sitting around and having no life, and tinkering on my test wiki. My name is ExampleUser.

See the difference? The second user did it for the badge same as the first, but, included other information, and didn't spam the post. I, myself, don't give two shits about the badges or how many I have (which is ironic because I'm the one in first position on said leaderboard.) But I don't think we should simply disable them. Pointsgaming rules, though, are one of the rule sets that will be discussed at the Administrator Meeting.