User blog:Henry Hudson GC/All for NOTHING

I tried so hard to fix the wiki, in just one way.

Categories, something every wiki has. I personally agree that they are useful, they help a lot with navigation and it buffs your edit count.

But when is it too much? I thought our wiki was abusing categories, and I wasn't the only one. Several users and I spent about a week removing categories from every page with more than 5. I believe before I started, there were around 150 pages with more than 10 categories. At the end, there were none.

Now, all of my hard work will be destroyed. With the category rule repealed, we can now add categories that are unnecessary and make our wiki look like a mess.

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I honestly think this is stupid. I mean, WTF IS THE POINT OF A WIKI PAGE CATEGORY? And this is all because CrossDoggo kept whining about it. The only thing preventing me from quitting is the "Wiki Life" badge (can't give that up lmao).
 * It doesn't help with navigation
 * It has been constantly abused in the past for badge gaming.
 * People who contribute to large and organized wikis will think that we're retarded.
 * It applies to literally every page on the wiki excluding blog posts, which don't have categories.

Despite my leaderboard position, I now really want badges to be removed. As PET said, they are the #1 cause of toxicity on this wiki and have caused more drama than MartySays.

Anyone can now move themselves up by adding "RELEVANT" categories.

Let's see, the page is called "Favorite Video Game". Hmmm, I'll add the categories ...
 * Mario Kart
 * Clash Royale
 * Minecraft
 * Video Games
 * Games
 * XBox
 * PC
 * PS4
 * Nintendo Switch
 * Nate Clone
 * CrossDoggo
 * Spyroclub
 * Wiki Page
 * Wiki page
 * Articles
 * Survey
 * Poll
 * Media
 * Community Survey
 * Articles with over 10 edits
 * Articles with tables

I could probably come up with a hundred more that are somewhat related to the page.

But, what can I do about it now? I'm not active enough to undo everyone's edits that involve stupid categories.

Guys, do what you want. Add 20 categories to each page, I don't give a crap anymore.

Henry_Hudson (talk) 02:32, November 8, 2019 (UTC)