Thread:Kavpeny/@comment-452-20150817192613

Hey there, I really liked your comment regarding the "security measures", and I completely agree that there has been an increasing tendency of locking down features recently - which I expect to continue, under the guise of "Security is our top priority".

Given that admins have always had the potential to add malicious javascript, and that this is hardly the first restriction Wikia Staff have implemented recently, I suspect that Wikia has been waiting for an opportunity like this as an excuse to implement further restrictions.

I had been writing a response in the thread, but the thread is now locked.

I don't know if you've noticed, but some of the most vocal supporters of the restrictions are those who have already been given the right to edit those pages again.

The arguments for this nonsense are reminding me more and more of the tired old arguments "Anyone can edit a wiki, therefore all wikis are full of false information" and "Anyone can edit a wiki, therefore I'm going to unnecessarily protect all pages on the wiki". 