Board Thread:General discussion/@comment-5079138-20151026013135/@comment-5079138-20151026131859

Well, here's the problem.

For certain people who like challenges, it's so irresistible so that they might fall into this trap.

Also, we CANNOT stop the next falling victims easily if the leaderboard system is there. There were some votes to remove the leaderboard system but NONE of them won.

The leaderboard system DO have a good function, such as:

-Capable of counting deleted mainspace edits, which is useful for promotions, unlike the Special:Editcount which counts ONLY non-deleted mainspace edits.

-It can tell you how much pictures you add to mainspace pages, which the Editcount doesn't offer.

BUT. There are MORE disadvantages of it:

-The daily edit count thingy is irresistible, and sometimes you just can't resist the urge to do it.

-Many of the people failed to get the badges for it, because they missed one day, and most of them got depressed.

-You can kinda "show off" your editing skills by scoring HIGH achievement points, and some people may want to be in the leaderboard, which takes kinda forever.

-SO456 and UG are the TWO people that are in the top of the leaderboard, which is EXTREMELY hard to beat, unless if you can edit WAY more frequently than them.

-The more you get into the leaderboard whatnots, the more ruined your life is.

So, I actually want them to be disabled, or maybe just hide the daily edit badge somehow. The fact that it has more disadvantages makes me want to see it go away.