Thread:Thailog/@comment-1037137-20130824023712/@comment-1037137-20131007030904

Well how has it deterred anything up until now?

Well that makes sense to restrict them then, but you do not have to make it a permanent thing. That system worked for the time Book 1 was on, why not just reinstate them when Book 2 is done? You guys are not going to have much to do between Book 2 and 3, so what the heck else are you going to do on a site when you have an editing desert in your midst? When all the updates are done, what are you guys going to do? Let's be realistic here, editing will drop sharply when comes back those between-season breaks when you have relatively little to update, okay? Think about that for a few.

Huh. Did you ask anybody else if they share this vision? Wikia forbade anonymous users over the summer, isn't that enough for now? Not that all of them were troublesome, but it at least made sense to do that given the arguments made over age and how it was used as a shield by some for trolling and sockpuppetry. Didn't have to go that much further.

I am not making hasty generalizations, and I won't let that dispute distract us. I'm sure you dislike me because of past disputes on the wiki and I'm sorry for them, but I am not opening old wounds here. You can't pretend fans are not going to talk on a site where the show that is the focus of the fandom is the central highlight, you can't stop them from talking. And now this business on Avatar Answers Wiki, that's become a worst-case scenario with the building restrictions there. Nobody here is under the illusion that these wikis are like Twitter or Facebook, and so long as the talks had are relevant to what these wikis cover what the heck is the cause for alarm?

Wikia has always been free use and most people use it responsibly, but these recent preventative measures against the offenses of a relative minority, and out of this obsessive desire to separate Wikia from FB and the likes threatens the entire point of that. Nobody's using this wiki for any other purpose but discussing Avatar and stuff, so I wouldn't fix what isn't truly broken. I don't see what the deal is. You guys did away with anonymity among users, fine, you block comments on pages during the time these seasons air, fine. Those were reasonable measures, but some of these more recent ones aren't. These are making it exceedingly difficult for some of us who actually want to talk to each other to actually talk to each other.

Okay, I'm just gonna leave it there for now.