User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-3366778-20110926211233

Just another day, and I think, "what can go wrong". Ah, that's when I see Wikia fall even further on its butt than it has with its previous pointless addons. Must we take our time and discuss the failures thus far? The "new" profiles, Admin Dash, new editor, category red-lnks, emoticons, et cetera. And, now we remember the old discussion, especially with the new profiles, with Wikia's new love for social networking. My god, what a large uproar that was. Anyway, this just helps with this ridiculous, unnecessary, utterly pointless, addition to pages. Of some of the reviews I've been reading thus far, some of it talks about talk pages. Now, I hope to god that Wikia isn't fazing those out, because if they are, Wikia, you just lost more than half of your userbase.

Surely, you people running these advancements as you say are fully aware of the consumer. I ask this because of what I've seen, you have a huge tendency to piss off your consumers. To be honest, I'm pissed. This is, as I'd like to stress, a very unnecessary feature. If you want to talk to people, use Special:Chat, talk pages, forums, even blogs; not some ridiculous chat feature. I've begun to ponder why Wikia has suddenly moved toward this "consistent" blob of social-network-loving fools that do not actually care for their subjects. Wikia is a wiki-farm, a place where ideas and encyclopedias are born, raised, and shipped off to the outside world to live; Wikia, unfortunately, you fail to see what you are supposed to do.

I am appalled at many of Wikia's movements to enhance their idea of consistency across the network, but although I see their reasoning, all it does is enrage the common citizen. All these new changes do is ruin the fun of editing wikis. We, the userbase, do not want to be more like a social network for we aren't one. As you say in the blog, talk pages have limitations. While that may be so, there are other options for such limitations, such as blogs or chat. There are several ideas to come about here, but you are all too blind to see what you're really doing. Wikia, I have one question for you. Why? Why make changes you are well aware of that will just piss off the community? My guess to this question is that you actually know damn well of their actions, it's just you don't care &mdash; so long as someone cares, it's all right.

It seems like Wikia admires many things all over the internet as you take various ideas from places such as Facebook, but nonetheless, whether you people actually read this message is irrelevant and sometimes, I don't know why I go through lengths to express my opinion in these harsh times of Wikia'ing. You find new ideas and do not help in enhance those that are already broken. Chat is a really great example of this as there are numerous items for it: PM'ing with multiple people (PMs are still broken, iirc), emoticons still need to be tinkered with, IP blocks/kicks for moderators, better kickban times (Similar to that of blocks), et cetera. There are even more to discuss, but ones that are more or less completely irrelevant to this (once again) "Facebook merge".

Ah, I think I see what Wikia wants for consistency now. Wikia wants us to disband, lose all of those who don't like their ideas to other, much worse Wiki-farm sites. This isn't he only mention of this, mind you. I had only wished you, Wikia, would have the foresight to have seen your userbase rebel. Most of the users here have still put up with your bad additions, and, knowing us, we won't give in to Wikia's new totalitarianistic wave of rule over the entire userbase. As I said several times before, DON'T move any closer over the edge, Wikia, don't be a fool and become the next huge name in social-networking. I find it sad to see great powers fall, so, I'd hope to not see you with all of your potential do the same as great empires of the past. You are dying out, while it may seem that you are still strong, the thoughts of the many indefinitely outweigh those of your loyal subordinates.

So, I ask one final time, to stop with this pointless "new feature" of yours. Wikia, you have terrible ideas; you shouldn't even have them, either as you are a Wiki-farm, a site that takes time to build encyclopedias, YOU AREN'T a social networking site. I hate to say it, but after my many long years researching wikis overall, Wikia, you have failed. You don't take the time to really discuss matters with the people, the community. Instead, you, as I compared to totalitarianism, are a Governing state that takes demand from no one, while you should be a democracy, a government pseudo-controlled by the community you try and keep. Now, I end this statement in hopes you'll find your actions thus far unpleasing and informal. I do not want to be Wikipedia, but I do not want to be Facebook either. Please, take the time to read all the feedback you're given as you are in a life and death situation here.