Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25150955-20160909010405/@comment-26402117-20160910120556

MonadoGuy wrote:

Who's "insulting" Wikia staff? Criticism =/= insults, as much as some people seem to think otherwise. Not a signature

I'm not happy at all with Wikia's new Discussions feature. I got some serious help from other users and channelled my dissatisfaction into a large dump of constructive and specific feedback regarding different aspects of Discussions, which I, as a Discussion mod on Pokemon Wiki, ironically haven't been quoted on in this petition. Maybe because they're actually constructive? Like a small number of other users on the blog, whose actual feedback are being drowned in wishful thinking to kill a beta. I'd be signing this petition, if it didn't clarify that Discussions could be improved into a viable competitor for desktop forum users on Wikia.

I strongly think opinions like "Wikia rarely listens to their users" are not criticism. They're insults and they directly contradict the existence of an official contact form or feedback form. They also contradict the way staff pulled Venus by user request - after some Wikia users gave it a testing ground and high-quality feedback on how to fix it which didn't work out. I think there's a lack of appreciation that the rollout hasn't happened and won't happen for months. It appears like people here have been contacting staff - to ask obnoxious questions like why Discussions is necessary when staff made clear they're finally bringing search and mobile support to Wikia's forums.

I'm not saying Discussions is complete at all - from what I see, the desktop version only has the customization features and the basic functionality I'd want from a viable product. I don't want anything to do with this thread by at least twenty four hours ago, I just don't like incivility - especially to the people who gave us the only truly stable and universal wiki farm on the Internet.

Peace out, and please respond on my wall.

EDIT: If I'm not happy with Discussions when the rollout is at hand, then expect me to be pitchforking civilly for its removal with you. Have a good day, and feel free to sign.