Thread:RRabbit42/@comment-14347212-20130820035053/@comment-961279-20130820041519

Badges are kind of a mixed blessing. They do help get more activity on a wiki, but I have also seen cases where people make edits just to earn badges and a lot of those have to be fixed. I can't complain too much about them because there's a wiki where I try to make at least one edit a day just to keep the "you edited here X days" badge running.

The ones that abuse this are called badge spammers. There's a few wikis that don't have badges turned on so that they don't have to deal with those abuses.

I haven't looked at what you and DragonKnight are saying, so all I can offer is general advice. Edit because you want to help make the wiki better. If you get a badge out of it, then that's great, but don't make earning badges your main goal.