Thread:Meighan/@comment-2190376-20120204181801/@comment-26686429-20120204214408

A unified look is very good for branding, if someone comes to a different Wikia site and sees a completely different UI, they're going to be more confused than if they see a skin they're familiar with, that's the reasoning for the Wikia skin not being optional.

As for the "my favourite wikis" bit, making it optional is another setting that needs to be added into the code, as it's not a big feature, but a small part of a larger feature that almost everyone people on Wikia couldn't care less if they could turn it on or off, it doesn't make any sense to write code to allow people to hide it when there are much better things (bugs, new features, improvements to existing features) that it makes sense to spend time developing.