Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10975360-20131008160050/@comment-32656-20131010063528

The number of badges/badge points a user has do tend to roughly correlate to the number of edits a user has, provided the edits in question occurred after the system was introduced.

And it really doesn't add spam. At most, just re-directs some of it.

And Guns, I have to admit that in both ways of measuring, I pace well above you all :p

Nuke and Eo are doing a good job of catching up, though.