Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-26066818-20150725023815/@comment-10473115-20160310163840

Badges could be earned by adding articles to wrong categories or by doing unnecessary dummy edits. That should be easy to notice. "Legal" way to earn badges faster is to split a big edit to many small ones. That's harder to regulate because sometimes splitting edits is good for page history. It would be very difficult to base badge earning anything else but edit count because it's impossible to automatically (or in any way) know the "value" of edit. Every edit which improves the article is a good one anyway, even improving our categorization.

I wouldn't worry too much about "abuse", this isn't a competition and badges are No Prize.