User blog comment:Notdn/Proposal: Disable spin-off badges/@comment-30423876-20170728072138/@comment-30423876-20170728073356

I was gonna change my oppose into a support but then I realised something, if we wanna grow the wiki and make everyone feel involved, why have badges at all? I mean, someone new to this site might be like 'oh, it's a competition? i'm gonna find somewhere else to post my crappy spongebob fanfic!'. As well as this, half the badges on this wiki are just spin-off badges anyway and the others are ones you simply get by luck or ones that force people into editing a page in a type of category they might not even want to edit. Sure, there's the ones that 'encourage' people to do simple tasks but then they just evolve into somehing like 'edit 1000 pages'. And yes, you would have done a lot of that already but this wiki shouldn't be a race. Of course, you could ignore them completely but it's not like the achievements in video games where you can just turn them off. So, yes. Spin-Off Badges ARE pointless but so are every other type. Some people have even said that they don't care about the badges and don't even use them so WHY DO WE STILL HAVE THEM? The way I see it, there's no point in getting rid of Spin-Off Badges when you're gonna leave every other single one of them still up.