Thread:Primexit/@comment-25297120-20140917135441/@comment-12.218.41.6-20140917141538

The badge system was TERRIBLE!!!

It gives credit for any edit that is made, so if you look back in the history you will find certain users that would make pages with 100's of characters by editing writing one letter, saving, writing one letter, saving, writing one letter, saving... etc. Then they would delete all content and begin again! Other users would add useless categories to many many pages and left a lot of cleanup for other people to do.

Once that option was diabled, however, only people that actually cared about the content of the pages stayed, because there was no longer any purpose to editing unless it was for content.

Essentialy  with the leaderboard people were "gaming" the system here on Wikia just some people can on KA by various methods. Since we have control on our wiki, we shut it down here, and I for one am STRONGLY against ever activating that option ever again!