Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26900371-20190826005341/@comment-4010415-20190828012244

Overall, the issue we have with badge hunting is that it easily devolves into spam and vandalism, especially since it actually has devolved into that in the past.

We once had a user who was trying to get all of the badges for adding images to pages by completely removing the contents from pages that had a lot of images on them and then undoing their own edit, while claiming that someone in their house kept doing it over and over again. Because they undid their edit to put the images back, it counted as adding images to a page, which built up toward the badges. Regardless of the fact that they undid it, it was still vandalism, and it was spamming the activity page with large amounts of images.