Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27524978-20160913223435

Overwatch Wikia admin here.

I'll gladly start this off with a list of reasons of why I loathe the Discussions Feature so much:

1. No use of wikitext.

2. No highlights, so it's impossible to notify the community of a very special announcement.

3. Even if there was something that I really wanted to talk about, that discussion would be forgotten and buried under other discussions in less than a day since there are no notifications.

4. The discussions are completely isolated from the main wikia, so almost nobody from the discussions ever edits at all. And I bet that most of them didn't even bother to look at it. I even chatted with a few people who had no idea how to edit an article or start a Live! Chat, even though there was a link for the Wiki Home.

5. It's completely unorganized. I hate seeing posts of people asking questions jumbled together with others posting random Overwatch videos.

6. The community. While there are some good and mature people, I've encountered users on the Discusssions that act like nine year olds, despite the fact that Overwatch is supposed to be rated T for Teen. People there tend to abuse the Report button on posts that aren't even negative, alot of the discussions are deleted for being off topic, drama tends to start up easily and most of the posts are just asking the same thing that was already posted about a few days ago. I cannot count how many times I've seen stuff of users asking about "Who's your favorite hero?", spamming unneeded emojis on nearly every post and sharing their Battlenet ID because they want people to play with. As an admin, having to manage the discussions makes me feel like an unpaid babysitter. It's almost as if some of the users there didn't even bother to read the Discussion Guidelines.

I don't know how the discussions appeared, but I want to be rid of them as soon as possible so I can replace them with Forums to build a bigger community that actually helps and interacts with the Overwatch Wikia. But the question is how.

Even though the Help:Discussions literally says that the discussions will activate if enabled,  I don't see anyway to disable them through the admin tools.Multiple wikis still seem to have their forums still in tact, but I'm clueless as to how that is so. I've also noticed that the forums are disabled for the OW Wiki. If the forums are enabled, will they replace the discussions?

If any experienced users reading this know the answer as to how to disable Discussions, please tell me how to do it. I'd be very greatful. And some contributions to the Overwatch Wikia are always appreciated. :)

And one last note to the Wikia Staff if they're reading this: '''You should have the Discussions just be an option instead of having it replace the Forums and be shoved down everyone's throats. Wikia should just stay as a wiki oriented site rather than a watered down social media site doomed to be overrun by immature children that can't follow basic rules. ''You could lose alot of users if you continue on this path. Please reconsider what you are doing.' 