Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-5785681-20150228152313

The Hero Page claims to be a replacement for Special:Promote. It is NOT. Why?

If it were a simple replacement, the ONLY place this feature would appear is on CC serving its intended purpose:  Promotion of an individual wikia. That's it. Instead, when enabled, it tops the wikia using it, thereby pushing the self-created Main Page into "second class citizenship." I tried to leave feedback via the embedded link, but it doesn't work so I've disabled the feature and will not be re-enabling it unless the feature become singular to CC and appears nowhere on the invidual wikias I administer.

This is not a so-called replacement for Special:Promote, but yet more micro-management of how a wikia is "supposed" to look. My guess is that the current navbar (which is mostly reviled) will be replaced by this Hero Page as the header for the wikia. I could be wrong, but my gut tells me this is probable.

Seems like individuality and creativity is going the way of the dinosaur as Wikia forces Branding on us. And why? It benefits management who will now have a way to get more advertising dollars, some of which will be used to manage Staff (understood), but most of which will be going into only a few pockets who profit off of the hard work of volunteer editors. This is what my generation calls a "SELL-OUT."

I urge all admins to express their opinion on this new feature that, currently, is voluntary but (mark my words) will eventually become de rigueur unless enough shouting is done. In the long run, it may or may not make a difference but my gen was raised in a country (America) that encouraged people to speak up when something smells and then root it out or, at least, draw attention to the problem.

Angelle aka Luxartisan (talk) 15:23, February 28, 2015 (UTC) 