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Open Proposal
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Introduction
Over the past year or so, there have been questions regarding badges. Some are in favor while others are opposed to them. We could enable or disable badges, or we could come up with a better solution. This discussion was used to collected opinions and ideas to get an overall discussion on badges. Here are the overall results for badges, pros and cons:
- Pros
- Gives users a sense of achievement
- Motivates users to edit and be active
- Encourages new users to explore different aspects of the wiki
- Add a competitive element
- Disabling might discourage editing
- Cons
- Badge farming
- Edit milking (which can clog the Recent Activity/Recent Changes)
- Badges do not consider quality of edits
- Other awards exist (UOTM and satisfaction for helping wiki)
- Overreaction/obsession when winning badges
If course, if badges are kept, we can use suggestions brought up by users to address the issues, including those listed below, as well as the administration taking more authority in which badges should be used and which should not.
- Cracking down on badge farming
- Editing rules to prevent edit milking
- Add rules to restrict badge farming
If you think badges should be kept, use {{Support|Keep}}
If you think badges should be disabled, use {{Oppose|Disable}}
If you are neutral, use {{Neutral}}
This discussion will end on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 8:05 a.m., eastern time. — AMK152 (Wall • Contrib) 12:04, April 22, 2015 (UTC)
Discussion
Neutral - I am actually neutral. I do see the benefits of badges, but I still don't like them. — AMK152 (Wall • Contrib) 12:04, April 22, 2015 (UTC)
Disable - A few select users edit just to get badges, instead of focusing on improving the wiki. Also, per the cons. ~Prez 12:08, April 22, 2015 (UTC)- Template:Extremely Strong Support --
SpongeQuackerpingu SquareStar (meow). 12:35, April 22, 2015 (UTC) - Disable - They have caused problems and will likely continue to. Dragonballgtgoku «Talk Page/Contribs» 12:38, April 22, 2015 (UTC)
- Keep - Per what I said in the earlier discussion and the pros. Also, admins can revert all badge farming and even warn/block the badge farmers! We can't lose. We just can't. It's also very fun for some users like me. -- SBCA~Luis (Wall • Contribs) 12:41, April 22, 2015 (UTC)
- Keep - Definitely keep. They make you want to edit because then you get a reward for doing so. Badge farmers can easily be stopped by the admins patrolling the recent changes page for any users making small edits on a page repeatedly, or adding a bunch of irrelevant pictures, etc. but I stand for keeping them as they make editing quite fun. Lumoshi (talk)
- Strongly Keep - They are a nice reward for everyone to try and achieve. Come on people, we shouldn't let milkers ruin it for us. I know for a fact that at least 2 users (and probably more) are going to try and go platinum. How will they do that, if we cripple that source? Tan Ham Man 13:27,4/22/2015
Keep - Per what I said in the earlier discussion and the pros. Also, admins can revert all badge farming and even warn/block the badge farmers! We can't lose. We just can't. It's also very fun for some users like me. -- 
Strongly Keep - They are a nice reward for everyone to try and achieve. Come on people, we shouldn't let milkers ruin it for us. I know for a fact that at least 2 users (and probably more) are going to try and go platinum. How will they do that, if we cripple that source? 
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