User blog comment:Toughpigs/Wikia's new Forum demo/@comment-1025281-20120726142406

I'm happy to see Wikia finally make an effort in the forum area. Yes, some purist wikis will reject this kind of feature as they have for others, but for many wikis it remains a desirable feature if done right. I think keeping it optional will strike that balance.

One of the problems I anticipated with this was the lack of community-editable space, so I am glad that's in the pipeline. One thing that does bother me, however, is the "kudos" thing. I just don't understand what could be achieved with it.

Also, couldn't this work alongside wikis' existing forum namespaces? At least in theory, there's no technical crossover, unlike with talk pages, where notifications and confusion of where to message a user would be issues.