Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1474707-20140611200801/@comment-5454372-20140612015600

Callofduty4 wrote: I just hide whatever I don't like :\ Wikia wikis still work fine as encyclopaedic websites Following on from this approach, couldn't you display links on the main page teaching people how to install personal CSS and/or JS to hide the undesirable content (and also encouraging anons to sign up if they want to use those)? I can see a couple of potential advantages there:


 * 1) Recurring anon visitors who do not want to view obstructive content may be encouraged to create an account in order to use those functions. They'll have a small taste of editing while installing the CSS and JS, and because they now have a name and a face, the community is one step closer to welcoming them personally to join the editing community
 * 2) Encouraging users to consider CSS and JS as solutions may boost the overall knowledge and skills of the editors. The more people who look at that coding, the more chances that someone will become interested in learning it and making their own things -- that kind of mindset and creativity may well flow back into the wiki's content, with more innovative uses of coding, template designs and whatnot (perhaps a small stretch, but that's certainly my own experience).

True: this is a workaround, and not the ideal "we don't want these features forced on us to begin with" solution that most people want. But what I'm trying to say is that there is a workaround we can use, and there might actually be some advantages for the wiki communities themselves depending on how you set these up.

Let Wikia focus on trying to increase their ad views through other visitors -- while at the same time, without violating any parts of the ToU, use their actions to try drawing in more new faces and getting users into the meatier parts of wiki editing.