Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-8276741-20160618143659/@comment-33878615-20160620202101

I do not really see why Wikia staff hate that people actually want to customize their wiki.

It is their wiki, so what is wrong with doing what they want on it? If they want to disable comments on one article, what is wrong with that? Look at Reddit, for example: There are millions of subreddits controlled by Reddit’s users. The moderators of said subreddits can do whatever they want. They can disable comments on a specific thread, they can disable comments on all threads, they can disable comments and submissions from one user, they can disable comments and submisions from users who have just registered, they can make the entire subreddit private (so that only the moderators can view it and submit thereto), they can make it public but make it so that no one or only specific users can submit thereto, etc. They can even “shadowban” users, which means that a specific user’s comments and submissions will automatically be deleted without them even knowing.

However, on Wikia, you cannot do anything like that. If you want to make it so that no one but administators can edit the wiki, you are not allowed to—a Wikia staff member will undo whatever CSS code you add or whatnot. I do not understand why. If you are an administrator for a wiki, why can you not control the wiki? Let us say that I created a wiki, and I am the only administrator and user on the wiki. I am still not allowed to lock the wiki, hide the edit button, hide comments, or whatever. If a wiki’s users do not like what the administrators have done, they can just stop using that wiki and move onto another or create another themselves.