User blog comment:Cshannon/Introducing Wikia Stars/@comment-69.113.52.73-20130111032240

Does Wikia have a meaning anymore? To be honest, things like "guest authoring, appearing at events and/or participating in interviews" are not what Wikia is about actually. I don't see how any of these future "Stars" can be of use to a community, except to the fact that it will consume time. How will these Stars be able to understand the topic of the wiki before they actually do anything with the wiki? I think the community itself should build upon their own editors, who actually understand the topic at hand, and should improve themselves by editing, and perhaps, asking questions to more experienced users, but creating something like Wikia stars is not the answer to a better editing zone, since these things the stars do are no much more than creating pages that they have no whatsoever knowledge on. I don't see how this is to encouraging anything, except that the fact that these stars are better than normal users, as well as to the fact that people are no longer being influenced by editing, except that they are being more controlled by the power this program gives them, except that the program does not exactly give any benefits to those who are apart of it. It was stated in the blog that this program may help expose the hard work of editors. Isn't the wikis created by the editors an example of the work they have done? What more has to be done? I think that most likely that  editors should focus on the content, than the social aspects of what this program has to offer. Furthermore, why must one become a star to "become an even better Wikia user", when one may already have achieved that status by just working on the wiki? Wikia is a large website, that many users use for a resource on a topic, and creating this program does not seem to produce any positive results. That's my 2 cents. :)