User blog comment:Gp75motorsports/Wikia Staff - Please STOP implementing changes without communities' consensus./@comment-26408630-20150505014519/@comment-1038387-20150507111615

The problem is, there is no "the community" that speaks with one voice. Everyone wants something else. While you could cater to that, ultimately, Wikia wants to improve its branding, and that needs a degree of uniformity. Brand name recognition gets more visitors and more advertisers. Which keeps the site running.

Not everything should be optional. Things like forums and walls have a greater impact on a local community's day to day operation than the position of the edit button or color of the global navbar.

Wikia discusses things first. Just not with everyone. They talk to Councilors (at least, I think they do - I'm not in that loop). I have no idea what the Councilors are and, as 452 mentioned, think about things. I see GP75's trying to get in, I hope for him he succeeds. I hope he doesn't find the experience disheartening.

The thing about this blog is, Wikia didn't call for this blog. They look for feedback on the main blog. And even there, they're not going to address every individual point with a specific answer, as that's not how feedback works. They'll be more like "yeah, we'll pass this along". They listen, they just don't always come up with the solutions we want (like that horrible grayed out navbar idea).

The fraction of a fraction argument is very much valid. If you propose a change, the "whiners" are gonna whine harder than the praisers are gonna praise. You'll never get a fair image based on just replies. So the number and the tone don't matter, just the concerns. And those you can get from Councilors.