User blog comment:Susanolivia/Fixed Width, Sidebar, and the Removal of Monaco/@comment-113335-20101001205121

FINALLY, you responded to the vast majoprity of your base! ...with excuses!

Monaco is too expensive to maintain? That's one of the things you managed to muster?

Boo hoo; it's a shame that you'll have to cut into your profits to satisfy the very people that make those profits. Is it true that you, as a for-profit company, are pulling in cash, right? To me, ten thousand or fifty thousand dollars is more than many make in a year. To you corporate moguls, that's chump change! If Monaco is so expensive, why not cut some salaries?

I bet you're paid a pretty penny, and I am CERTAIN you can live without a few thousand, am I right? Money isn't as tight for you as it is for the common man. I'm sure CEO Gil Penchina can spare some of his millions for his site. He used to run stinking EBay, after all!

Many wikis like to remain independent. They spend many hours customizing their MediaWiki console to tailor it to their COMMUNITY, and honestly, the Transformers Wiki doesn't care if a Muppets Wiki user comes to them and has trouble with their default skin. They can set their own skin in the Preferences section.

You are compromising the relative sovereignity and independance of every wiki in an attempt to please your advertisers. We don't want a "sleek" new skin, we want a practical, usable, customizable skin that can be tailored to each community. Assimilating each and every user and forcing every man under the villanious thumb of Oasis (or, as one man called it, Pitcher Plant), really eliminates the purpose of "community" in each wiki. We ALL customize our databases for OUR community.

Also, your worst argument was regarding the Muppets Wiki. You didn't like that some infidel test group thought it was made by NBC. I respond to that with this, as follows: WHO CARES?!

Most of us are not here for glory. We are here to build communities and teach the Masses, or to write stories and have fun amongst friends. We don't NEED our images attributed on every page. We can attribute them by telling others on the Shout Box and talk pages (Hey, look what I uploaded on...). The Recent Changes and Upload Log does that as well.

Once upon a time, I was tempted to ask certain independent Wikis to merge into Wikia for the sake of integration. I will now do the opposite, urging anyone who is able to move OUT or find a DIFFERENT wiki host. I look towards the brighter future of Bimserver and custom domains.

Wikia is dead to me, and I can't wait to see you lose your profits. Maybe then you will learn. Maybe.

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