User blog comment:LostInRiverview/Personal thoughts on the Achievements feature/@comment-4315861-20101026180827/@comment-26744861-20101026211541

I agree too as there will be some (noone in particular) who will just make a load of edits to try and get to the top yet they could be useless edits. They might even go around posting pointless blogs and talk page messages. I'd rather see a user make one excellent edit than a user who makes 100 pointless edits.

Also, I feel that having the points system on this wiki is a bad idea as everybody is used to living without it and it could just encourage users to make many pointless edits for the sake of popularity. A wiki is not at all about popularity!