User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-3565124-20110927191617

Before you read this, Wikia-makers (Wikia destroyers), please be ready for lots of criticisms. Okay. I said it. I come from The Avatar Wiki, and am very displeased with this change. Our community of over 5,000 users have done fine with just talk pages for the past five years. We are all pleased, and work is completed. No. I don't really get this. Wikias are for reference. Facebook is for social business. Isn't there a difference between a social network and an encyclopedia? Wikia wasn't made for community discussions. It was made for people to look up info on their favorite topics. We've added so many commenting and interactive features over the years of developing Wikia, and I compliment you on that, but this, this puts it over the top. Way over the top. You say, "It’s hard to know where to respond." Well how hard is it to press a large, bolded button that says "Edit" on it. Right. That's what I thought. And what do you mean, "New users are often confused about how to sign messages"? You don't need to massively change the Wikia network, (in a way that most people don't even want), just because users don't know where a button is on the editing window. I learned that from being a part of Wikia for less than two weeks. Everyone does. Don't you see the comments below? Don't you get this? Hundreds of users don't want this change! You're destroying Wikia just so users won't be confused on their first couple weeks here. Okay, I'm going to say something mean. I'm going to say it.

This.

Change.

Is.

Stupid.

Yeah, I said it. There's really no other way to describe this. That's what it is. We have been thriving, absolutely thriving on The Avatar Wiki for years. We don't need a social network - We won't have a social network!!! People have strong bonds on the Wiki already. We all like each other. We can leave messages (easily) and do what is needed. All this change is thousands of users across the wiki becoming really annoyed. We make friends here. We already have. This change. This change is pure trash.