User blog comment:Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd/Who enabled the badge track?/@comment-5036924-20120302213713

I have mixed feelings about badges. They can be a motivation but they also push people to make counterproductive edits just to earn badges, like putting up too many photos or adding silly/duplicate categories. For instance, I noticed a ton of edits on lots of article stub pages without much substance actually being added, which I suppose is due to people chasing the badges.