Meta:The Great Badge Battle

**Note: Please do not abuse the badge system! Categorize correctly and earn them honestly. Users who go mayhem will be banned for two days.**

**The Great Badge Battle** was a fight between wiki editors for the #1 spot on the leaderboard. It was fought by ACoca162, Steviegt6 (Unintentionally), ImpulseFibre731(Unintentionally), Cherxbimx, and Guesswho2568.

## Origin

Achievements are a leaderboard point system that Wikia offers. On December 23rd, admin "Cherxbimx" teased the possible installation of this system. It was then introduced as an early gift to all on Christmas Eve, one day later. Cher was ecstatic about this but didn't know the trouble that would begin to occur because of it a few minutes later.

## Cause

ACoca162 learned about the system after earning a badge by accident. He was confused but excited and established a personal goal of being #1 on the leaderboard, a position previously held by the creator of this wiki, Epiiphonic.

Cher, after noticing this, went on to be overconfident in her victory. This only fueled ACoca's flame, and he proceeded to go on a categorizing frenzy. Cher followed suit and the number of uncategorized pages quickly went down from 62 to 14. Users online were left in shock, and Guesswho2562 asked if this would be added to the Edit Wars. Both of the contenders answered the user's question, but their answer inspired Guesswho to join the Badge War.

## A New Challenger Approaches

On December 24th, 7 PM EST, Guesswho responds on Coca's thread with an ominous "A New Challenger Approaches". They proceeded to make their own blog posts, respond to people's walls, and generally keep a friendly competitive tone. Coca at this point categorized like crazy. Cherxbim was left intimidated by all of these, but this wouldn't be the final time she felt this.

## The Man, the Myth, the Legend

Out of nowhere, a great warrior named ImpluseFibre joins the battle. They earn their badges honestly and work their way up to #2 when the rest of the participants are on their break.

Impulse hadn't officially joined the battle, but as they were in the top 4, they were drafted into this mess.

## Some Other Dude

Near the end of The Great Badge Battle, a user by the name of Steviegt6 joined the battle and quickly rose to the top. Though originally not being aware of all the chaos and unintentionally being involved in it, he had decided to join it.

## The Seth Saga

During the late hours of the battle, the user named MynameisSeth witnessed the whole commotion. Seth saw all the wrong categories and general chaos first hand. They reported the mess and their actions caused the beginning of the end.

It's believed that if the editing spam wasn't reported, the war would've gone on for more hours.

## The End

After the chaos that went on for hours, many of the participants started to feel guilty. There was a mess and the competitive spirit of some was too intense. Impulse dropped out, Stevegt6 was slightly annoyed, and Cherxbim was not feeling it anymore. Some people were very annoyed of the quality of the categories as people were focusing on quantity.

They called it quits and called a truce. Users who abuse the badge system and go mayhem will now be blocked for two days as punishment, although as everybody could be blamed making a line on who would be blocked and who not would be seen to some people as arbitrary because of the reason that the situation wasn't black and white nobody at the time was blocked. Nobody did this intentionally and rules weren't clear yet.

The whole discussion can be seen in the comments of this post. The battle lasted until 25 December 2019 at 1:15 AM (EST).

## Badge Tactics

### ACoca162

ACoca162 used many tactics to gain badges. The main one being focusing on categories as they give points toward the edit badge **and** categories badge, although sometimes there is a glitch that doesn't allow him to add badges (this happens to other people). ACoca162 also used insights page at first to find pages without categories but then he also used a tactic where he added categories to each day about the if the day was on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc... although this ran out and he has moved to other tactics

#### Organization Tactic

ACoca162 always finds it important to organize. He used dynamaps to separate his several tactics so he doesn't mix them up. At the start, he had Gmail so he can check if anyone has written anything

At the time of the battle, he was in 1st place.

### Cherxbimx

Cherxbimx used two tactics to gain badges. The first tactic was basically ACoca's insight page tactic, where they add categories and such. Her second tactic was called 'stress editing' where she edits things like crazy hoping these would unlock a badge. This may be why she wasn't so successful.

At the time of the battle, she was in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place.

### General

Other tactic players used were spitting their edits into smaller chunks. This was used to prevent editing conflicts and you can gain more edits on their profile.

## Reactions

These are a collection of fellow users' and participants' reactions and quotes.

#### Early Responses:

**Denightwalker:** 'Y'all are crazy, I can't even keep up with all of these. xD'

**MynameisSeth**: 'holy moly'

**Cherxbimx**: 'mom pick me up im scared.'

#### Later Responses:

**Steviegt6:** 'This entire thing was kind of dumb. '

**Impulsefibre731: '**I was having fun at first, but now... not so much.'