Thread:Thailog/@comment-1037137-20130824023712/@comment-1037137-20131006034041

Yeah well I've never seen such a big deal raised about them until this year, so forgive me for questioning why it suddenly is a big deal.

You're right I don't know, but I now have every reason to believe they'll someday come under fire and further tightened since apparently differentiating the wiki from the likes of Facebook is just becoming such a huge priority. These individual wikis have never operated in the same strict sense that the original Wikipedia does. There's a big difference. I don't see this anti-socialization thing being pushed everywhere else like it is here, so forgive me for having waved a red flag at it. And frankly, I will say that community input is now endangered on the AW. The fact that I have not seen this kind of thing on 90% of the other wikis I've visited makes this alarming to me. My point is straight out I don't like the idea of stifling talk on the AWs just because you have to differentiate it from something like Twitter, and most folks I think understand that it is not. Like it or not, these wikis are also places where fans of whatever's out there converge to talk side-by-side with their day-to-day editing and never have I seen it raise alarm on any other wiki. Why is Avatar such a special case in all of this?

You already are a thorough encyclopedia, this talk and stuff does not take away from your ability to provide accurate and objective data on the topics the wiki addresses, this talk has stripped AW of absolutely none of that. The talk and speculation continues but does not render anything on the wiki unreliable in providing the info people come for, it is not compromised in any way by the majority of the people who come. True, you gotta root out the folks who deliberately try to interfere with it, but the majority do not, and certainly not by having their talks separate from the data displayed in the articles you've showcased on the AW.

Describe it as you will, but this is a concern of the AW that I think is being played up a tad much. Besides, it's not like any of you guys in the administrative role have never had your own hand in such chats and comments, I've seen you guys do it before. In the end we're all just people on the same site.