Board Thread:Bloons Wiki and BTD News/@comment-4795804-20121210135220/@comment-4795804-20121228213734

Another topic, I would like to reopen the question:

"Removing badges from Bloons Wiki: YES or NO?"

When we last talked about it, my preferences were "not remove", however I prefer the "remove" answer more and more.

For example, when I check the Daily Challenge page: Many people care of the daily image, but not the challenge history. People simply get +1 point to "make X edits on articles" & "add X pictures to articles" for the image added and they don't need to write any text, so they simply just add the picture and that is all.

In general, actions such as adding images, categorizing pages or editing Bloons pages are prefered, because people get more points for that.

Also, when I look on the Special:Leaderboard page, there are still many people on the top positions, who haven't been much active in last months such as Spike144, Anomalous13, CyberGuy23, &hellip; and also, I wouldn't expect to see people such as Raindrop57 or Mark Kong on the list, who have made mostly just a lot of cheap edits to get some badges. I'm afraid that new incoming people are no longer motivated to contribute by the badges system, when they find out that they have to get around 1,000 points to see their name on the list.

Removing the badges from the wiki is a decision, which can't be undone easily (I guess that all results will be lost irretrievably, if we disable the badges), so it is important to consider the decision carefully. I would like to hear the opinion of all people, who are interested in this question.