Forum:Have Achievements gone?

When I joined this wiki, just over a year ago (for a reason which combined two of my fandoms, this one and Doom), I got annoyed because almost every time I did anything, I got a silly pop-up message aying I'd won some badge or other. I then discovered that the same problem (for such it was to me) also infested my home wiki (Fastmail), and resulted in a lot of pointless edits there; so I wasn't at all surprised to learn that this wiki had policies against "spam edits" made solely to rack up the Achievement points. These two points convinced me that the Achievements system, which is supposed to encourage editing, in fact mostly encourages vandal editing.

I threatened to turn off the Achievements system on Fastmail unless somebody gave me a good reason why not, but the bureaucrat beat me to it a few hours later; he agreed with me that the system was "silly and pointless". I've since discovered that I can personally opt-out of the system by a profile setting, hence did; I thought this was why I haven't seen anything Achievements-related anywhere for a while, not even here.

However, a few minutes ago I went into the Admin Dashboard on the Fastmail wiki (my experience is that the "comment" system is also a bad idea, for similar reaons, and that we should revert to the "talk page" system; I was checking how to do that) and found that the "Achievements" switch is labelled "Implemented on 0 wikis". Did it finally get turned off here? Did Wikia withdraw it for some reason? I'd like to know. -- RobertATfm (talk) 16:08, July 29, 2012 (UTC)