The Sims Wiki talk:Community Portal: Difference between revisions

::::I personally think it should stay deactivated. These achievement things are highly overrated, and as AsherEire has said, turns the wiki into a contest for the most badge, not that I would be interested. As GG has mentioned, there will be badge boosting, which I think is full of crap, for a lack of a better word. [[User:Mathetesalexandrou|<span style="color:#00CC33">MILK FOR THE UNYUUFEX, </span><span style="color:#00AADD">FLAT CHEST FOR THE CUTENESS THRONE, </span><span style="color:#88AAAA">SKULLS FOR THE SKULL PROBES </span>]] ([[user talk:Mathetesalexandrou]]) 19:21, April 13, 2012 (UTC)

 

:::::While I do get the thinking of re-enabling it, I've got a lot of issues with it, namely:

:::::#The system doesn't distinguish between unproductive edits and actual productive edits. I could, for example, go to a page, add a file to it 25 times to get a badge, and then revert it, having kept the badge. In one instance on another wiki which was being attacked by multiple vandals I got nearly 1000 points for simply reverting ~50 edits to pages with lots of files on them.

:::::#And finally it makes the wiki look like a game to some extent. I know Wikia is going for the "let's copy facebook" route with chat and message wall, and to me the achievements are a bit like facebook games... if you think about it.

:::::</rambling> {{WHsig|01:31, April 14, 2012 (UTC)}}