User blog:M1shawhan/Badges? Badges??? Maybe we DO need stinkin' badges!

Okay, so we got badges. This is in a "test" phase right now and we would like to hear your feedback on if you like/dislike them at all. Here's how they work: you make an edit, you get a badge and points for that badge. You make several edits, you get more badges/points. We even have a leaderboard to show you how you rank on the site point-wise. All your personal badges are displayed on your userpage and talk page. There are special badges depending on several criteria. Ex) If you edit in a blog there are blog badges, there's even badges for if you edit daily for a certain amount of days.

Here's the catch... this is a feature that Wikia has allowed us to have and we are going to leave it on for a while to see how it does. If it does well, we'll keep it. If it does not, we have the option to turn it off.


 * If you DO NOT LIKE the badges, you can turn them off at anytime by going to your preferences, select the "Misc" tab, then choose "Hide my badges and stop getting badge notifications". That's it.
 * If you DO LIKE having them on, then edit away!

We will be adjusting the badges to be more suited and personable for the site. Also, your edit numbers ARE INTACT, this is a separate module we have turned on. The catch on that is that when the module was added to the site, the point system for the badges started at zero for everyone. Meaning, even you can be on the leaderboard. A little healthy competition never hurt anyone, right? All I can say is people are already making their way onto the leaderboard. Do you think you have what it takes to beat them? May the best editor win!

Let us know in the comments below though what you think (either good or bad). Have fun!