Board Thread:Policies/@comment-1038387-20180310213434/@comment-28125426-20180310223338

It does encourage pointless edits from randoms. I can’t deny that. And there are redundant badges such as the blogs. Granted. But in saying that, they may also encourage casual editors to become more productive editors. The Superman badge was personally a motivator for me. It motivated me to complete an issue per day, and on the days when I didn’t have the time, or wasn’t at home, opened up other proactive editing avenues such as cleaning up OOU articles.

Eventually badges mean nothing to hardcore editors but in mid stages it can be a motivational tool. There are occasional badge farmers, but a random blog or a few reverts for those single edit badges is a minor inconvenience at the most, and even with badges gone, you will still have to revert stupid edits from newbies. We get them all the time without collectors.

I am a mildly obsessive-compulsive collector, so I did pay attention to badges when I was starting out. And to be honest, losing the Flash badges deterred me from writing synopsises for the early Firestorm appearances.

Either way, I wouldn’t bother me. I’ll just take a screen shot of my Supes and make it my avatar, then when they’re gone, I’ll be the only one with it instead of the 12th.