User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-1429792-20110806143937/@comment-3388044-20110808083506

 Acer : Well put.

 Ryan : Also, well put.

 Monchoman : Again, well put.

 Meighan : Every Wikia Staffer that has responded has repeated, like some sort of mantra, that turning off AD is not and will not be an option. What you all seem to fail to have grasped is that we are so p*ss*d off about RC, that people all over Wikia have spent the weekend crafting CSS and JS to completely eliminate AD from our personal Wikia experiences. The conceit and arrogance of a statement such as"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"has caused us to go to these extremes. Other than your responses, other Staff comments have indicated that — just like with category red links — there will be no middle ground, no compromise. Push and people push back. This weekend the most passionate Wikians pushed back by coding AD out of existence in their personal Wikia experience. Short of compromise, or removing our ability to customize our CSS/JS, I cannot imagine anyone who coded AD into the trash bin salvaging it.