Forum:Badges

I have disabled the Wikia batches on this wiki. Batches are a very nice idea to encourage users to be more active and get some reward for their work. However, I have seen that it isn't working.

The current Wikia Batch system can't check the quality of the edits it's rewarding. I have seen people making lots of VERY small edits to get their "100 Edits" batch. Some users add things like "......" to an article, an immediately removing it afterwards. Doing this will certainly boast your number of edits, while only wasting valuable computer memory.

After all these years I think batches have done this wiki more wrong than good. Therefore, I have disable this feature. I was the user with the most batches on this wiki, so I have "lost" most by doing this.

Unless someone has a REALLY good reason to get the batches back, they stay away.

I should have discussed this first with the other admins, ofcourse. However, they have a tendency stay silent when I make these proposals. Therefore, I've made the decision first, and listen to complains afterwards. BastionMonk (talk) 13:24, November 15, 2013 (UTC)