I strongly prefer an ungamified GitHub, but can appreciate the OP's work (a nice site and some interesting stats). The two ideas are not mutually exclusive.
Not only can you turn the badges off in your profile but you are barely even encouraged to participate. I have absolutely no idea what badges I'm missing and I have never once done anything to achieve a badge that didn't come to me by naturally using github.
I really don't get why some of you think that github would be drastically different without badges.
I really don't get why some of you think that github would be drastically different without badges.
edit: Here I took a screenshot of where to disable it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36681101#36683016