User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-27014396-20170116015001/@comment-27014396-20170116024502

Special:Forum is also perfectly fine, and isn't old enough to be something that has to be removed. Wikitext does not work in Special:Forum, and replicating the properties of Special:Forum and putting it into Discussions is as inefficient as giving the wrong blood type to a dying patient. Things used in the Special:Forum are simply incompatible to Discussions. Also, the reporting tool should just be removed, since people will certainly try to find ways to circumvent that, no matter how much machine-learning and all that you add. Messaging a mod with a screenshot and all that is far less prone to abuse, because unlike the reporting tool, messaging a mod and using a screenshot can separate the legitimate reports from the abusive ones, and you don't really need machine-learning or any other complex technological shenanigans to determine the legit reports from the abusive reports when the reports are used via the message wall option. Unfortunately, Fandom screws THAT up too by adding User Discussions which doesn't work very well with screenshots and pictures. More points here:  http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:1106806