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About Category Badges....

Seol404

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Do we need them? all they seem to do is promote category spamming and make it easy for anyone to become the top contributer, anyone who starts with zero points can become top contributer in less than a day, I feel like we should either get rid of category badges or make them cap off at around 5-10 thousand
 
I personally don't have much of a problem with them, though yeah, I suppose that does make sense.
 
Yeah I think what bugs me the most is when users make pages like this solely to category spam for badges, there needs to be a limit, or none at all
 
Honestly, this Wiki should just drop the badge system entirely. Most of the badges tend to encourage spam with how ridiculously easy they are.

And besides, getting rid of badges wouldn't change much, if anything at all. Hardly anyone here takes them seriously outside of spamming, anyway.
 
If the rest of the community doesn't want badges I'm fine with them being gotten rid of.
 
I agree with Yellowpig
 
KingPin0422 said:
Honestly, this Wiki should just drop the badge system entirely. Most of the badges tend to encourage spam with how ridiculously easy they are.
And besides, getting rid of badges wouldn't change much, if anything at all. Hardly anyone here takes them seriously outside of spamming, anyway.
I don't think we should get rid of badges entirely, only the ones that are easy to get via spam (For instance, its allot harder to edit spam than it is to category spam, and its even harder to picture spam than it is to edit spam)
 
Everyone seem to be in agreement. So now, should we discuss the actual way this will work?
 
Yellowpig10 said:
i say every category badge past the first gold one gets taken back
I am an agreement with this
 
Are we going to do anything about this or not...
 
I would like for Yellowpig's suggestion to happen, but how does removing badges work? Is it even possible to remove only certain badges? Or is it an all-or-nothing kind of deal?
 
I'm sure you can remove only certain badges (There are a few which aren't active in this wiki), but I don't know if you can limit the number of times you can get the Wiki Planer badge.
 
I wouldn't know what to tell you. I have never been an admin and at the rate I'm going I'll probably never be one.

Oh wait.
 
Seriously though, I'll try to rummage around the Admin Dashboard a bit. See if I can dig up something in regards to this.
 
Nope. Unfortunately, I don't have the clearance to do that.
 
Yeah, for some reason the only thing you can do is enable the ones that aren't enabled. Or maybe that's just me.
 
Lets wait for Ryu, its clear that we cant do anything right now
 
If any admin is able to do that then go ahead.
 
I agree to get rid of Category badges, I don't care anymore, It not only wasted my time, nobody cares too, I really want them to be removed, it gave too many problems to me
 
At this point, I think its best just to remove them all together
 
what about the edit badge and decorator badge? What if one person does one picture in less than a minute every day and its not even a good quality page, like 60 picture edits a minute
 
Uselessnoob245 said:
what about the edit badge and decorator badge? What if one person does one picture in less than a minute and its not even a good quality page
Those are alot harder to spam
 
I think everyone is in agreement that Category Badges should go, now we just need to decide if we should get rid of all badges, or just category badges
 
Yellowpig10 said:
Uselessnoob245 said:
what about the edit badge and decorator badge? What if one person does one picture in less than a minute and its not even a good quality page
Those are alot harder to spam
Yeah they can just add a 250 pictures literally from the picture history, and it would take them a week to reach the top contributer if they do it 24 hours, I'm on this site for almost 12 hours a day
 
Uselessnoob245 said:
Yellowpig10 said:
Uselessnoob245 said:
what about the edit badge and decorator badge? What if one person does one picture in less than a minute and its not even a good quality page
Those are alot harder to spam
Yeah they can just add a 250 pictures literally from the picture history, and it would take them a week to reach the top contributer if they do it 24 hours, I'm on this site for almost 12 hours a day
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it, but I doubt many people will picture spam
 
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