User blog comment:Young Little Unicorn/Edit Counts and Badges/@comment-26429063-20160112123759

Badges were created so that users could feel, you know, a purpose when editing (like that time you study your heart out just for that perfect score), so every users wouldn't just be bored while editing. And that is what our wiki is.

If you looks at the more veteran wikis, you could see that they still uses badges, most likely to make the wiki more friendlier to new users, as they have something to boost them up while they are typing words into a virtual world, encourage them to stick to Wikia.

For examples of veteran wikis which doesn't use wiki, like the Call of Duty wiki. It doesn't use badges, because, one, most of its users are anonymous, so badges earned isn't that much. And second, they are homes of the most, let's just say the oldest, skilled user in Wikia, they ain't have no reasons to use badges. And third, finally of all, badges would looks stupid there.

And edit spamming, well, that's inventible. You can't disable editing, you can't do no damn things about it. Editing others' fan fiction is wrong - not if you have the creators' permissions - but fine if it is for adding necessary templates, resorting categories and stuffs like that.

If you want to resolve this problems, just take immidiate actions for users who do it. Blocking a user will remove the, from the leaderboard, so that's one thing.

P.S. The most edit counts were 1 million, made by a guy who edit 173 times per day, and that thing was in the Guinness World Record for like, 5 years ago? Still, that was Wikipedia, not Wikia, so....