User blog comment:Dharden/Response from Wikia about achievements/@comment-1519608-20101025224036/@comment-480886-20101025230155

IOW, they've given us a truckload of lemons without asking if we want them, and won't take them back, so we might as well open a lemonade stand. You've got a point. Personally, what annoys me even more than the badges is the point system, and that a user's edit count is replaced with "points".