Board Thread:The Official Announcement Board/@comment-3030647-20150806024740/@comment-18812574-20150807053032

No on achievements.

If this was a canon site, like say, Avatar wiki, then achievements are useful in encouraging editors to contribute. But this is fanon we're talking about. People write as they feel inspired, and write as much as they want to write when they want to write. Adding the achievement feature would just be adding extra pressure, in my opinion, and instead of helping users to improve and have fun, would create an atmosphere of "I have to do better then so-and-so" or "I have to make the next badge," and so forth. Plus it adds a lot of clutter to the activity feed, which is already a slight problem due to technique pages anyway. Now, while welcome badges might be cool and all for new users, besides that I don't really see the point of having them at all. They're somewhat juvenile, to be honest. If you are deriving your satisfaction in writing fanon from achieving bit-rate virtual badges... then why write fanon to begin with?