Thread:CzechOut/@comment-4674838-20120825232426/@comment-188432-20120826075855

You're framing the argument the wrong way in your mind. You're trying to define "right" and "wrong". Code has no morality. It does what it's been told to do. And Wikia programmers have deliberately and with great thought allowed the RTE to shut down when it encounters either a) "complex" code or b) __NOWYSIWYG__.

If I were to put NOWYSIWYG on a page, you wouldn't find that objectionable, would you? I mean that's what it's there for. That's like putting a NOTOC up. It is a valid, page-specific alteration to the behavior of the software. It's not a mistake or a bug; it's the software working "as intended".

So if I can put up a NOWYSIWYG, it must follow that it's okay to trip the other flag that Wikia have laid down for us. You really don't need the opinions of others to figure this out, and you're kinda wasting staff time by doing so. I am using the tools they've given us in precisely the manner those tools are designed to work. I am taking the option to turn off WYSIWYG in order to draw people's attention to the source code. There is no "right" or "wrong" about that. It's simply a choice that I'm making — a choice I have every right to make, since I'm investing my time in troubleshooting for other users so that Wikia staff don't have to.

How can the staff logically tell me that I can't force source mode, when they've given not one, but two tools for disabling it at the page level? I've never heard them say you can't disable TOCs at the page level, or suspend the editing of sections on a particular page. To my knowledge, they've never made a rule about how and when a magic word can be used, so I doubt they'd start now. Especially since this isn't a MediaWiki magic word, but one that they themselves have created.

There are times and situations where it's good to disable the RTE. And frankly, there's no better time than when you're explaining complex code, which is my general activity on this wiki. .

I really hope that if you have already "gone to the principal", as it were, that you'll send back another note saying, "Never mind." You only need to ask yourself one question to end this whole debate: if it's not okay to disable the RTE at the page level, why would Wikia have created two ways to do it?