Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-20644-20141110180435/@comment-5785681-20141117232604

If you really want to know what's driving all these changes....just follow the money. It's always the bottom line for every incarnation/upgrade/improvement/alteration of any organization. No cash flow means no product. So, in essence, if Wikia doesn't profit, wiki(a)s everywhere eventually shut down. That's the bottom line. But what troubles me is that Wikia tells users to fight for Net Neutrality when, in essence, they are seeking the same kind of control over product as the people they rail against. This, by standardizing how everything is done. Yes, there are options, but for how long? That's my concern.

Personally, I don't care if you call it "whoshotJohn?" or whatever, but keep the individualizing aspects as they are! One size does not fit all and by taking away those quirky element choices that make each wiki unique, you destroy the original purpose of wikia which I've always thought is fan-centric information gathering (with profit-making the end result for parent company). The social aspects are SECONDARY, at least to me. To say "just turn off the feautre" seems flippant when it seems likely that what Wikia, Inc. decides their product will be, it will be no matter what individual wiki editors/admins say. And now that advertisers smell demographic target audiences to sell product, they are going to push for more (not less) branding. Building brand is the mantra of every business program I know at every university and academy I can think of today.

I just hope, Brandon, that all this chatter isn't just a venting session to pacify the angry mob while the higher-ups do whatevever they choose to do. And I hope you are not "in the dark" about your part in it as staff. That's all I'm saying.

Take care.

Angelle aka Luxartisan (talk) 23:26, November 17, 2014 (UTC)