User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-3148529-20110926232920

I'm fine with it, if the feature becomes optional. If it doesn't become optional, I am going to seriously come out and say the following: This is worse than the change to Oasis. This is worse than the profile banners. This is worse than the fatal chat malfunctions. It is by far the most hideous development that this company has even implemented in its entire history. I'm not saying this to be rude, I'm saying this because it's a fact. At the time I write this, I'm fairly sure that MORE than 99% of users that have seen this have despised this, even those that enjoyed and praised the previous features.

The plain fact is, stated at least 320 times before now: '''Wikia is not a social networking site. It is a wiki. A wiki gives information to its readers, not babyish comforts to its relatively miniscule amount of editors.'''

Let me put it this way. It is likely that a pretty large majority of the world population has read at least one wiki article, be it for research or just curiosity. Most of the time, when people see this social networking c$$$ they just flee, depriving them of information that can educate them.

Of course, some people will see these features and decide to hop on and have fun, which is probably Wikia's full intention. But have you ever seen people who use things like internet chat rooms? they talk rahter liek this rofl. They don't have the skills neccesary to properly edit a wiki, and by being addicted to these abominations they never practice using the tools for them to become an experienced editor.

I'd say more, but I want this to be readable. This comment says it all.