User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: August 16, 2011/@comment-1393830-20110816211347/@comment-1474707-20110816231941

Well Dopp I'm glad you've "heard the points", even if no staff are going to respond to them. As you like to have all your feedback in one place, I may as well re-post my argument: To wikia staff: The effects of this change are starting to show themselves, even though you've locked commenting on the blog post. this person was blocked for "creating nonsense categories" on true blood, and on wiki 24 we have had a a user treating categories as if they were youtube-style search keywords, and other contributions from new users not realising the categories they add don't exist. The reason? They don't show up as red, letting them know that they've added something non-existent. The effect? New users get their edits reverted, get told they're doing something wrong, and feel less welcome to edit. Note how your "compromise" does not change this situation at all