Board Thread:Policies/@comment-1038387-20180310213434/@comment-246292-20180311174401

It seems to be a consensus that it's valuable for newer editors but useless for those who've been here a long time. It also seems that all the experienced editors want it removed because it's no longer fun/worth it for them personally. I'm not sure that in itself is a good reason to remove them. Taking that away from someone who still finds enjoyment in them just because you no longer do is kind of lame.

I would also agree that some of the tracks are dumb at this point. The GCPD one was set up with the intention of improving those pages when the Gotham tv show was about to debut. There is the option to set up other tracks but that takes work on the admin side and is limited by Wikia, mostly to categories. It would be great to set up something to says you get a badge if you add a history section of at least 1000 characters to a page but I don't think that's even possible. And like everything else, the badges will always be susceptible to badge hunters exploiting them with bad edits.

I don't know if I'm arguing for or against keeping the badges. I guess my point is we can change what no longer works for us if we decided to go that route. I'm just not sure we completely do away with a tool some of the most experienced people no longer use just because they're the most experience people here.