Forum:Does anyone actually like this Message Wall thing?

I don't hate it, but if it is mandatory, I will probably lock it and just tell people to use a subpage like User:Fandyllic/talk as a workaround. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 27 Sep 2011 12:08 AM Pacific


 * I'm looking forward to see it, when it's done. If it's implemented properly, without bugs, then I'm all for it. I find that a lot of users have difficulties with wikicode on talk pages, at least on the wikis I edit. They also forget to add post titles, signatures, indent between posts etc.. This feature solves these problems, but again, if implemented properly.


 * I never bought this "Wikia isn't a social networking site" argument. After this statement I have never seen any convincing rationale why Wikia shouldn't import some social networking features, if the features in question can indeed be labeled as "social". Wikia wikis aren't just small Wikipedia's. While on Wikipedia the community is huge and rather anonymous, the subject of Wikipedia covers everything and the site has an encyclopedic profile, this is not the case on most Wikia wikis. On small wikis, fanon and entertainment wikis in particular, communities aren't big and are gathered around one subject. Contributors can follow all the changes on a wiki more easily and find out what other contributors work on and thus encourage more social activity. While I'm a big fan of Wikipedia; it's structure, consistency in layouts and functionalities, I don't believe that Wikia should be going the same way. — Sovq 07:37, September 27, 2011 (UTC)
 * I think the thing is that "social" functions are unnecessary on smaller wikis and poorly thought out. For the smaller wikis, you don't really need things like blogs to keep up with everyone; there's usually IRC and the like for that. The other thing is the functions appear to be poorly thought out, such as new the new Message Wall. Wiki users are quite conservative when it comes to the software they use, and adding things like the Message Wall because some execs saw a Powerpoint presentation about how social networking is the future is lame. Wikis are not social websites and they never will be, despite how many dumb features you add trying to convince people otherwise. Its like Wikia is at the center of some social experiment to see if wikis can be converted to useful social networking tools, but nobody really cares or wants it. Darkman 4 08:22, September 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, this pretty much proves my point - there's a lot of general criticism regarding this feature but very little constructive, specific and convincing arguments to support this criticism. Especially since none of us have even seen how the Message Wall works. It almost looks like the bashing is done on general principle, because every new Wikia feature has to be bad by default. — Sovq 09:27, September 29, 2011 (UTC)