User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-2209134-20111013012356/@comment-1997905-20111013115955

The point of a wiki is that the community owns it, not the host or the service provider. This is something Wikia doesn't seem to care about, indeed, they are a corporation and follow basic corporate morals - if it makes money, it's a good thing.

It's also not a good idea to assume you are more or less knowledgeable than someone else. Subtank makes a good point that I agree with, editing is not rocket science and can be picked up very quickly. Message walls poorly fix a problem that never existed in the first place for the vast majority of people who create the content Wikia profits from, and that is essentially why it's a bad idea. It would be a different story were it a decent fix - unfortunately, it's just as poorly written as blog or article comments, with a few lazy patches to close up security holes. If you don't like your edit disappearing when someone edit conflicts you, don't refresh - that's a simple fix that you can make for yourself that doesn't involve destroying everyone else' editing experience.