User blog comment:Agent M/Shout Box V.2/@comment-1915803-20120723032141/@comment-1915803-20120724044156

Alright. And I don't think Cardsknower is still a badge-grabber. His edits are quality and meaningful.

The badges were actually implanted by someone from the Wikia staff I believe and we kind of went along with it. Now that we've established it, I don't know if we ought to change. We've dealt with badge-grabbers in the past, and there haven't been too many recently. There's no serious threats with them, and I think they make things a bit more interesting for users. I once suggested to do away with at least one of the two, badges or achievement awards, but nothing came out of that. I'm kind of at a stalemate concerning that.