User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Prototype for a new article layout/@comment-5785681-20150117172618

I keep looking beneath the surface of all these changes and, aside from a kowtow to advertisers, I'm beginning to suspect another agenda. What, you ask? I'm beginning to wonder if Wikia isn't thinking about moving away from voluntary editors altogether and moving to a minimally paid staff-based or sponsor-based editor platform? Right now, as volunteer editors and admins, we "go along" kicking and screaming. But if there's a possibility that the same work can be done by "drones" - human or mechanical, is the human factor even necessary except to oversee?

Ok, I admit it. I'm way too immersed in Psycho-Pass culture at this point, but media has often foreshadowed reality as it emerges (or perhaps even inspired). It seems like Wikia, as a parent company, is no longer interested in providing a platform for free-editing, but would prefer a uniformed brand it can "sell" globally and earn profits thereby. The question is: is this more readily achieved by real people/volunteers doing "different" things or drones (mecha or real) doing rigidly uniform or quasi-uniform work with the illusion of "different?"

Just a thought.

Angelle aka Luxartisan (talk) 17:26, January 17, 2015 (UTC)