Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24108228-20141005121721

Not even I'm old enough to remember back when we had achievements. All I know is what's posted in the countless logs that litter this wiki. Fortunately that's quite a bit. =Achievements= All of you who do remember that far back will also remember that it was a nightmare to moderate. Spam threads, edits, and categories left and right, nobody could do a thing about it. It was removed, and the badge list lingered for a few months later, still causing issues until it was eventually removed.

However in this day and age, we have a greater administration force, as well as a need for edit incentive. What better time to re-implement this idea? It's customisable, we can add and remove achievements at will, and the leaderboard will be a great new way of encouraging editors off the forums (of the roughly 1000 points, less than 100 are given out through forums and blogs). We can even make a category called "Pages requiring attention" and give out bonus points to anyone who edits those pages.

"But all the old users will start with 6293792 points!" Yet again, the system prevails. The only ones with an advantage will be the users who have been editing for several years (who probably deserve it for that kind of dedication). When disabled, edits no longer count towards achievements, and although the oldest inactive user's badges might linger, it wont be long before they get swept out the way.

I know what you're thinking. What about the badge hunters? What about the ones who make spam threads, blogs, images? Well, blocking a user takes them off the leaderboard. They return on the board when the block expires. By putting a couple warnings on the badge list (something omitted last time), most badge hunters previously unaware of the rule will take the warning and wont do it, those who do get punished harshly for direct ignorance of rules. As for null edits and absolutely tiny edits with no point, that's already covered in the Baby-Sitting Policy, so the appropriate scarfion punishment will be applied (a bajillion year block or something).

Thoughts? 