User blog comment:Gen. Grievous1138/Happy birthday Grievous1138!/@comment-25975584-20150421132932/@comment-25012056-20150421140153

The badges were a WikiLabs feature that gave users badges for blogs, commenting on blogs, edits, categories, stuff like that, as well as some dang stupid things too. We did away with them because they were stupid and people were griefing and then ungriefing pages to get badges and adding senseless categories.

Gen. Grievous1138 (admin) comlink 14:01, April 21, 2015 (UTC)