User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-1997905-20110806034146/@comment-3388044-20110806073639

We had better get used to it. Per this, there will be no ability for us to disable it on a personal basis in Preferences, nor any ability to disable it wiki-wide (e.g., through WikiaLabs). I love this part from the FAQ:"If it's disabled for some of our most passionate wikis and Wikians, your experience would be different than any other wiki and in the future you would not be able to reap the benefits of new tools added to the dashboard and other changes that will be coming along with this."If Wikia is so concerned about us having a different experience by turning the Dashboard off, how come they let us turn on Monobook? Aren’t Monobookers also having a different experience than those using the default skin? This reminds me of the fallout over eliminating red links for categories: We were told, essentially, “Lump it or leave it.” I would agree that Wikia is hearing us, but they’re not listening to us.