Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151026190758/@comment-26402117-20151106185351

LordTBT wrote: ''The first time I used verbatim, I immediately recognised that it could be used maliciously, and I thought it was great that Wikia trusted everyone with it, and that everyone was responsible enough not to abuse it. I don't know how many years it has been available, but I've found people talking about it in 2010, which means that there has been the potential for abuse for at least 5 years, but suddenly it's really urgent that it's turned off now.''

^This. Now, being able to embed pretty much ANYTHING on your Wiki with a one-size-fits-all is a fantastic feature and everyone really appreciated it - as much of a hole as it would be. But its time to say goodbye, close it and actually report when the built-in solutions don't work.

LordTBT wrote: For the length of time verbatim has been available without issue, or Wikia caring about the potential for abuse, you'd think they would be able to give people a little more time to make changes.

While a month would have been better, it may have been greenlighted by staff after the Mediawiki and Javascript changes. Which did take until the middle of October to get through to a significant amount - even though they're still ongoing and there are more new security features than the JS review process to come.

 Speedit   ♞    talk   contribs  18:53, November 6, 2015 (UTC)