User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Followed pages - a new way to stay up-to-date on your favorite wiki pages/@comment-1610819-20100505223955

Sorry if I sound hostile, but I honestly don't see the logic of this. How does it help to let everyone know what pages you're watching for changes?


 * 1) What exactly does this improve? As someone else said before me, "Aside from automatically violating users' privacy without their consent, of course. Normally I would use the phrase 'fixing what isn't broken', but I feel this is more towards 'breaking what works.'"
 * 2) It sounds suspiciously like what they do on Twitter. This, as we all know, is not Twitter. It seems "a lame attempt by Wikia to jump on the 'social' bandwagon". (Yes, I'm quoting again.)
 * 3) Another quote: "What if another user got hold of the information, and deliberately vandalized the pages on a specific user's watchlist to spam their e-mail account?"
 * 4) Is there a way to remove this from the wikis I'm an admin on?