Board Thread:New on Marvel Database/@comment-1713281-20130524150326/@comment-1713281-20130528191513

I feel like we've talk about this before...

While we would absolutely love to reward users for making edits to neglected pages, we can't do anything other than assign badges to a specific category.


 * We've talked about badges for the various eras (Golden Age, Silver Age, etc.), and they are likely to be added sometime this year.
 * Gender badges have not been brought up before (although that seems kind of broad)
 * I do like the idea of staff badges, as they could be useful in drumming up interest in them

And when it comes to making edits for the badges: We don't mind users whose main goal is earning badges  as long as  they are contributing actual, useful information to pages while they make those edits. What we have a problem with is users, like, say, this guy, who completely blank disambig pages, and then immediately restore the entire page, and rake in badges for it.

The guy I linked to blanked and restored the Spider-Man page, his only page edit on the site. That blank and restore earned him 9 badges and 300 points in less than 60 seconds. That is the kind of behavior we don't like.