Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1474707-20140611200801/@comment-5448890-20140611225901

Whatever gets wikia more views. Jsyk, the regular users are never and have never been catered to--wikia is a for-profit, after all, and if their ads don't get spotted, they make no money. Thus, whatever appears to draw more visitors--the fact that it encourages people who have been here for years to stop visiting often is of no concern to Wikia, as those users see few (if any) ads anyway. If you don't sign up for Wikia and instead view it as an anon, it's a mess and takes forever to load--that's because at least half of the content is ads and their placeholders.

In the end, this "featured videos" or "random videos" or any other "videos" feature they make is going to stay on whatever wiki they want it to, whether they community totally disagrees with it or not--as long as anons continue to visit, the module will stay. Furthermore...

The "quality" statement makes me laugh a little--because at least with my internet and computer, if I'm trying to load Wikia (and, as I said, anonymous users have ridiculous amount of ads), a YouTube player, /and/ various metadata, I'm not going to last very long. The so-called "quality" is what would destroy its chances first, whereas the licensing is just because Wikia is trying to stay perfectly legal in every possible way, and avoid videos that could get taken down 'cause they don't have a license or something.