User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Intro to Wiki Modernization/@comment-26304798-20170310204746

I get a service like this needs income to survive. I get that ads are a great way to do that. But if it starts to interfere with the layout of carefully written articles written by my contributers I am out so goddamn fast you will not believe. A gigantic ass video at the top of a page is about the most horrible idea for advertisement I have ever read. People don't go to that page to watch a fucking video, they want to read information about a subject. And you're forcing that information halfway down the page, below the fold in some cases. Who on earth came up with this moronic idea? Introducing video ads on a text based platform is about the stupidest idea I have ever heard.

Put your ads on the side, but them in the header, put them below the article. But do not mess with the layout of articles. It makes it a bitch to edit. It makes it a bitch to read and it will drive away the audience. It will drive away editors and it will drive away entire Wikias. I, for one, would rather move my wiki to a platform that doesn't constantly make stupid decisions like these. Or hell, even self host a wiki. Anything is better than the path Wikia has been on for the past few years.