Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5056929-20130104120051

This issue has been discussed of before numerous times but I wish to get it over and done with officially, post your opinion in the comments below, answer with a yes or a no and please specify your reason why.

Anyway in my opinion, I wish to remove the badge system altogether, I know I said I was neutral about this on the other thread but I have changed my mind.

Firstly, exactly half of the people on the badge leaderboard are inactive, it just doesn't seem right to have such a thing when there are people who have well, left it.

Secondly, the badge leaderboard counts all edits as small as a one letter edit or a basic category addition while it makes no consideration about massive picture additions and helping to modify templates and layouts. It proves how much this leaderboard puts quantity over quality and that is why badge hunters exist in the first place. By removing the leaderboard, pointless editing and category additions are a lot more likely to no longer exist.

Thirdly, I wanted to point out that I made the User of the Month page was made for a reason. You might be thinking how is that even relevant? Well, this new page I have created is to encourage users to do the opposite of the badge leaderboard. Of course  I don't mean anything like don't edit at all but it puts quality over quantity instead of the other way round. It will hopefully encourage users to make more constructive edits too. Having this along with the badge leaderboard well, I guess it can also confuse some users since they both mainly focus on different things.

To conclude my argument, I personally think that the removal of the badge leaderboard will be the answer to several problems.

Let the controversy begin.  