Thread:Ynkrdlevin17/@comment-5393732-20131228165134/@comment-4604704-20131228232138

Scrawland Scribblescratch wrote: That's stupid. If we don't incentivize people for small steps, one, five, ten, one hundred edits, no one will bother getting to 500, 750, 1000, 1250. You'll just scare off more new users, which you always scorn us for doing. Seriously, you can't even count how many days someone has been active. What if they join today and next year on this day you give them the award, but they actually missed the whole month of June, which defeats the purpose? Furthermore, I have seen little to no edit whoring on this wiki, and coming from someone who's actually active here on a daily basis. The only edit whores we have are CW and Gabrielisthegreat. Besides, you don't get points for Philling your userpage. You get one badge for your first edit to your userpage, that's all. You might see people editing category and file pages, but those actually don't count for the badge system. Furthermore, other wikis won't give a rat's ass about how many edits you have on another wiki unless there's actuallly a solid verification system such as the one wikia has in place for its badge system. In contrast, your system leaves much room for error, smoothened out or not. And who's going to go check the edit counts everyday? Out of our admins and bureaucrats we have two semiactive, and those that are active are lazy/cba/doing other things a lot. Also, you can get day points for going on chat and not editing, because let's face it, the only things you can do on a canon-based wiki are correct spelling and grammar and add new content, which comes out once every two weeks in our case, and currently we're waiting for two months to pass. Really, all you're doing is creating more problems as people will argue about who has what and who deserves what and who should have what. It's not our fault you're behind on the leaderboards.

TL;DR It is a heavily flawed system which will cause many problems. The system is best left to the professionals of wikia and their computers.

You think i give a crap about the leaderboard? I really dont care anymore about my spot on that. What i'm saying is people make useless edits for no reason scraw just so they can get points for badges.