Thread:Utter solitude/@comment-4241794-20140803004306/@comment-4839682-20140803022855

I appreciate you taking the time to make the suggestion, but badges are just not for us at this time. XD

They're great for encouraging editors when a wiki is growing, but that's really limited, imo.

We actually had badges for quite a few months when I first arrived here... unfortunately they led to badge-seeking edits (and by that, I mean users creating nonsense categories, fluff editing, and going so far as to upload one image a day just to earn badges). This is the kind of thing that seems to happen after a while with them. The problems were pretty rampant, so we (I) shut them off. They're also a little.. unprofessional in a way. If someone is editing just for badges, it's generally not a good thing.

I'm glad to see they work out well on the PLL Wiki, tho! :)