User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-2022446-20120504012449/@comment-1393830-20120504014922

"It's all about new users now"

This is one of the reasons I chose to back away from Staff and the wider wikia community. Staff seem to place people in two categories. "Normal Users" and "Power Users". A normal user is any user who is new and or inexperienced with wikis and markup or other things. A "power user" is any user who is able to function without the RTE and knows anything like css, js, html or something like that. Staff seem to cater to the "normal users" and expect us "power users" to just adjust. I think this is entirely the wrong way to think about things. Don't adjust to those who cannot and expect us who can to just deal with it. Instead, try to take those who cannot and make them people who can. Instead of making things easier for people who don't know wikimarkup, improve help pages and push people towards learning it. This is a wiki, people need to learn the language. If I move to Peru, I don't think the people there are going to learn English in order to communicate with me. Instead, I would need to learn Spanish if I wanted to communicate with them. The RTE and many new features take away the need for people to learn markup and instead make it harder for veteran users to function. This is entirely the wrong sentiment and is what is causing so many veteran users such as myself and Jazzi to become so angry. Then we have this search update with zero warning. So much so that I initially reported it as a bug because there was no warning about it, not even a global message announcing the blog. I am not going to get into your reasoning behind it because staff will never admit to what I think was the reasoning and I will never believe what staff say is the reasoning but the point here is that instead of catering to the new users, Wikia should be trying to teach users so that they are able to function without someone holding their hand.