User blog comment:ClockworkBunni/People who take advantage of the achievement system:/@comment-16397685-20130929094126/@comment-10777624-20131009025839

No, just bragging rights. Though someone did think that just because they had a lot of badges they could be admin.

People are really making useless edits because of these achievement badges. We're not exaggerating. I wouldn't make a blog post about it if they weren't.