User blog comment:Kirkburn/The expanding world of the VisualEditor/@comment-5076341-20141024154819

Read this all before making nasty comments about it.

WHAT!

"Note that anonymous editors already get the VisualEditor by default globally (barring a few very specific situations), and the change will have no obvious effect on wikias who have flipped their VisualEditor WikiFeatures Labs preference to 'Enabled'.

At some future point, not yet set in stone, we plan to phase out the classic rich-text editor - but the classic source editor is not going away. We will be continually reviewing usage of the classic rich-text editor to help advise our plans."

'''This is totally nuts! '''I have my wiki's (not my "wikia"; my wiki) setting flipped to "disabled", and I want it to remain as such. I will try to remain calm from now on, although I hope you will accept that this is an issue where passions run high. Why should we scare away anoynamus users by making them use this digusting tool - and then phasing it out even for logged in users. I hate the new editor for multiple reasons, but the mere fact that there are people who hate it should stop you from steam-rollering in and destroying the few fragments of wiki-editing tool that remain on what is fast becoming a social media site, and a joke. The job of community central admins (and admins in general) is, in your own words, to serve the community, not to essentailly tell the community to get lost and do thier own thing. The wiki admins should be able to make the choice to keep the editor turned off for users on the wiki, and also for non-users. The help pages are incrediblly biased, and the upsetting commerciallisation that began with article comments, ploughed through message walls and the (urgh) new forum has finnially reached the core of the so-called "editing experience". We're not an airline company, we're a wiki-building community. At least with the other features us little "rebels" who cared about our wikis as if they where as such could turn off the features which we campaigned against, but you are so determined to commercialise and turn us into a social media site that you have decided to crush us once and for all (cue evil laugh). If you like, I can provide quotes form users who have enough brainpower to notice how dumb this all is, new forums, message walls, VisualEditors and all.

I shall now retreat to what you probably envisange as an evil lair, so I can cook up more ideas to stop you making money.