Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25143095-20140808155303/@comment-24808864-20140808174943

We had that on when I first started here.

1) One  problem is some users would edit only one letter at a time (then making a page with only the phrase "Happy Birthday!" would consist of 14 edits because they would save after writing each individual letter)

2) A second problem is that some users would add useless categories to pages (for example, World of Math used to have so many categories, and irrelevant categories such as "cute" were invented.

Neither of these are against the rules technically, but they are against the spirit of the leaderboard.

Essentially, it turned into a point system that could be gamed instead of being used as an appropriate motivational tool.

PS: This is much like the concern about the energy point system on KA that 4Dpro and others have mentioned. The Bcrats (correctly) decided to shut it down to avoid the spamming of recent changes that was occuring.