User blog comment:Gcheung28/New sharing options on Wikia/@comment-452-20150427181052/@comment-4403232-20150428102655

"Users come to Wikia for the content, after all, and I remember reading that the further down on a page the content starts, the more likely users are to just leave.

It's generally considered a bad move to do anything to push the content down, as noted on Help:Customization_policy: "remember that this will make your content show lower on the page"."

It seems the "well it's alright if EVERYONE does it" mentality was adopted... and forced