Please allow us to show our total number of acheivement points below our avatar! :')

[Reinha]

There's already ratings or whatnot with the medals above your avatar.
Nobody uses them like this, I've never seen them called into account like what you're fearing.

The medals indicate being active on the forum. It's hardly something one can use to back up their argument. However, I have seen some people use lines like "you don't raid so how would you know that" to try and silence others. Achievement points show how much someone has played this game, so I can foresee it being used in debates about content consumption and longevity. "The game is not stale for you only because you have less than 5k achievement points."

Not that it matters, though. People who would take apart their fellow players instead of flawed reasoning aren't worth engaging.