User blog comment:Toughpigs/Wikia's new Forum demo/@comment-3366778-20120726002812/@comment-301981-20120726005756

The fora of a wiki should be related to that wiki; if people want to discuss stuff not relevant to it, then why are they on wiki fora? Yes, most wikis will have an off-topic subforum, that's fine. But other than that, what is the point of wikis having features that aren't useful to the wiki?

A little deviation from function is fine, and should be encouraged to an extent to form a cohesive community. But if a significant part of the userbase are only there for the social, why are they on the wiki and not somewhere that's meant for that kind of thing? This is what people mean when they complain about wikia turning into a social network.