User blog comment:NOBODY/Wikia's Halloween contest - what will the Nitrome Wiki look like?/@comment-24604053-20140321115134/@comment-4628859-20140321152222

When I was younger I always wanted to get all the badges I could (never spammed for them though). Then I realized getting badges was in itself pointless as just to be high on a leader board was worth nothing. The leader board itself was not a good judge of being better then anyone as a person could make a short edit and get the same badge as a person who wrote three paragraphs. Now it is just a pleasant surprise for me if I suddenly get a badge out of the blue when I was simply just adding more content to a wiki.

Question: Are badges more of a fad then actually something functional?