User blog comment:Creeper123456789/Badges made harder to earn/@comment-9884526-20130305194101/@comment-9884526-20130305200751

It would help if more people aimed toward these things instead of the badges because it's basically turned from a well intentioned idea into "hurr hurr let's get moar points and badges because we have no lives".

And if you honestly need badges to remind you about what you've done, you're already in serious trouble. They're also unnecessary considering that the contributions list will tell you about each edit or thing uploaded.

@Skelly This is a behavior that's pathetic and harmful all around. If you actually need some shitty "reward" at the end in order to start making edits (which may or may not be good anyway) instead of, y'know, actually wanting to do things that are creative or cool on your own initiative, are you really as good as a normal person contributing? It's not like these badges help you get groceries or pay the bills. If anything, the badges are rewarding bad behavior because they're feeding into the pathos of sad individuals.