User blog comment:JustSomeDude.../JSD's "Secret" Agenda/@comment-3075024-20150207140502/@comment-24769684-20150207180804

I actually think badges would do more harm than help because I'm an admin on a wiki that has them, and many, many times badges have been a cause of strife, over-competition for edits, and also there are users (usually new ones) whose only goal is to get badges; they don't actually care about their edits improving the wiki and sometimes outright vandalize just for badges. And that wiki doesn't nearly have as many conflicts as this one does. So it would probably be a bad idea.