User blog comment:Jenburton/An Update on Message Wall/@comment-2089817-20111008033911

The issue here is that you are trying to fix something that isn't broken. Communicating between members on talk-pages is very goddamn simple. You act as if it's rocket science, and think that you need to use Facebook coding to make it "so easy, a caveman could do it." I think the biggest issue I have here is that you don't care at all if everybody hates it, so long as there is a single voice that says "oh, it's cool". I don't know what you're trying to prove, but let me tell you this. History is full of moments where any sort of leadership, whether being a monarchy, or with a democratic government, would ruin everything because said person(s) in charge tried to make things "better" when things were just fine. And that's what is happening here. Don't try to cover up the truth with false empty promises, alright? This is exactly what everybody has been saying: this is a pathetic attempt at making Wikia into Facebook. And you should stop now, before you decide to do one more ridiculous update, and then you can say good-bye to your userbase.

I know what you're thinking. "Lololololol, he thinks just because he says this, we'll care." Guess what? Everybody in opposition to this stupid thing, which is a pretty huge majority of ACTIVE (yeah, I said active; you may have millions of Wikia users, but you can't honestly say each and every one of them are active, and even more so, haven't decided to post their real feelings toward this stupidity) users thinks very similar, if not exactly, as I do. It's not even a matter of losing the userbase majority anymore. Wikia has always stood for content, above all else, not communication. While community was encouraged, the Wikia's main point was for content, and this... this... farce pretty much destroys that very principle.

I suggest you stop thinking you're doing good to the Wikia, and its userbase, and actually start caring about what we think, instead of thinking that just because a few people are for this, that makes it okay to completely disregard the majority of angry and annoyed users.

Good day, Wikia.