Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5413643-20141203231947/@comment-24416108-20141223103000

Tupka217 wrote: (....) My point is, a lot of people here just spout out incredibly subjective terms - forced upon, (.....) They're opinions. Not the most useful type of feedback.

How is this an opinion? We don't have a choice, we just get it implemented. That IS forced upon, and that's fact, not an opinion.

Don't misunderstand me. I'm not trying to take away the voice of reason here - however, Wikia is alienating a large part of their most active userbase with the way they are implementing these new changes. Some more communication and listening to a lot of people who (together)have put even more time into these wiki's than they have themselves, and without getting anything out of it but the pride of a job well done, would serve Wikia much better. Trust me, an editor who improves Wikia voluntarily is worth much more than a hireling, no matter how professional, because he does it because he wants to, and if he's having a bad day, he can take it off. The editor does it because he likes improving the wiki for everyone to use, and in the time that he could be doing other fun things. Therefore, his efforts are superior.

However, by not listening to these people who are putting in their free time, and introducing changes that are going to take much more of their free time to repair the damage insofar as possible, they DO risk those editors leaving, and without the active editors, Wikia(the company) is gonna die a slow, painful death, since all their information will be outdated.