User blog comment:4th Hale/Annoying Characters/@comment-4061640-20110501185347/@comment-2047157-20110503212459

We did try to do a conventional awards system, except they had to be manually distributed.

All the badges do is encourage cheaters to make useless edits so they can hope to surpass somebody way up like Stealthghost (who is #1). But all this does is cause him along with the rest of us to undo these edits, which in turn inches us closer to yet another badge. Thus further encourageing to cheaters to continue. (Believe me on this, I have a degree in Nothing)

If true Ed, Edd n Eddy fans want to contribute to this wiki, I as an Administrator shouldn't have to dangle zero-value carrots in front of them to get them to do so.