User blog comment:GokūBlack10/A Fair Responce to Wikia's New Look/@comment-1656767-20101004044925

I was a beta tester.

"Those of you who truly love Wikia will stick around"

This is a very simplistic "your either with us" or "against us" argument. Making a blanket statement that all editors who want to leave don't love wikia is a simplistic ideological approach to complex questions. Maybe these editors are so frustrated because they have invested hundreds of more hours on wikia than you have? This comment is even more ideological than the staffs comment:


 * Q: There have been so many negative comments on the blogs, so why are you still moving ahead with this plan?


 * A: Because it’s the right thing to do for the future of Wikia.

Combining these too statements: we are going to do it because "we are right" those who disagree with us are not really loyal editors and don't really love wikia. Demonizing those who disagree with you does not build understanding. On the other hand, it does allow you to debate more, which you seem to enjoy.

People are angry. Instead of addressing the root causes of why these people are angry (extreme changes with no input from the community), you are attacking those people instead. Please stop picking out the most vile comments and attaching those views to everyone who disagrees you.

Pointing out how terribly angry everyone was about Monaco actually shows how out of touch the wikia staff is, and how little they listen to the communities input.

Maybe if the big wikias leave this time, the staff will start reevaluating their detrimental groupthink and embrace what a wikia is: a group of editors working together and making decisions as a community.