User blog comment:BusyCityGuy/The wiki - 2014/@comment-7078143-20121008235926/@comment-4052371-20121009041000

1 : Removing badges will solve nothing. It does cause some spam edits, but it motivates everyone to edit. Even if their edits aren't the best, at least they're willing to chip in and contribute what they can to the wiki. The important thing about wikis is that everyone can contribute, not just the highest-quality editors. It does cause spam, but it also gives a lot of users a motivation to edit. If badges were really that bad, then most of the big wikis wouldn't use them.

2 : How would that help anyone or anything?

3 : I agree with you on this issue. disrespect for admins and CMs is a major problem, and we recently added a new chat rule that says you can't be disrespectful or disobedient towards CMs. I'll try to work with the other admins to address this issue.

4 : Yes, we do need to be more strict on dupe topics, but not to the point where it becomes a witch hunt. We can't just check everyone's IP to try to find dupes. Checking a user's IP is something that we have to request the staff to do, and in general we're only supposed to use it on dupe accounts created by vandals that cause damage to this wiki. And also, just because two accounts share the same IP does not mean that they're dupes (they could be siblings). It's really not that easy to deal with this problem.