User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: March 4, 2014/@comment-14310002-20140304234702/@comment-3441771-20140305094654

This is the dumbest thing Wikia has done yet. I will not give my email out on the internet. As an admin, this means I either don't worry about editors needing to contact me privately (or for technical reasons; for "technical" read "block"), or I create a separate email address and try to remember to sift through the spam to get to users' emails.

True I've never received an email from another user, in the few months I've had it enabled, but just because you don't get a flat doesn't mean you throw the spare tire out! Wikia has the foresight of a dead bat.