Forum:Badges

Hey guys I edit a few other wikis other then this one and I noticed that some of them give users Badges and "wiki points" as a sort of reward for making big edits, and other ways of improving the wiki (they also have leaderboard to see who has the most points). So I thought why dont we do that here? Obviously we should not give away points and badges for blog comments, user talk, or small edits, as that would just encourage users to make pointless small edits that don't help the wiki at all, but we should definitely do it(in my opinion) for big edits that actually help the wiki, like editing stubs, fixing templates, uploading images, fixing a page's grammar(like changing an article from present tense to past tense, not just fixing one or two words), and providing lots of links and references, etc. My idea for this forum is to first discuss whether we should do this, then discuss what warrants a badge and how much points one should receive, and finally implement this into the wiki. -- 22:40, May 15, 2013 (UTC)

here are some examples of this on other wikis, i will try to find more later.  

Discussion
I think the "badge" discussion has happened on countless occasions and in all those discussions we came to one conclusion "Such reward system will promote spamming as well as useless editing" .. I was in favor of bringing in the badges but still, I agreed with those spam problem as well. You can make custom awarding system developed and made for something that admins has agreed upon but bringing the badge system provided by Wikia is bit dangerous. 22:55, May 15, 2013 (UTC)