User blog comment:Edwin Shade/Will Determine What This Blog Should Be For Later/@comment-32783837-20180104043716/@comment-30754445-20180104085217

Reverting the badges won't solve anything. A rule of "don't exploit the system" won't help either, because people usually hack it in less obvious ways.

I kinda like it that Edwin hacked the system in such an obvious and blatant (and relatively harmless) way, because it puts the futility of this kind of scoreboards into the spotlight.

The simple fact is that awarding quantity over quality is stupid. It's absurd. The people who do the actual work here don't get awarded for it, because spending two hours on one of the regiment pages is counted as 1 edit.

The only people this ranking system awards are munchkins who play the "game" for points. And since even the best of us have succumbed to this temptation (cough, cough, Hyp Cos, cough cough), I think we should kill the ranking system completely. Or at least - ignore it.

I mean, the combination of a munchkiny scoring system and "people whose main hobby is to create bigger and bigger numbers" is just a disaster waiting to happen, isn't it?