Thread:Utter solitude/@comment-25044414-20120919025345/@comment-4839682-20120919025734

'''No, it isn't temporary, I should have turned them off a long time ago... badges tend to encourage fluff editing, (adding pointless categories, changing one word per edit, taking multiple edits to do simple things, etc). Besides that, I've never been a fan of "ranking" editors... this isn't a competition, we should be working together to make the site the best it can be. :)'''