User blog comment:Susanolivia/Fixed Width, Sidebar, and the Removal of Monaco/@comment-1773235-20101003035506

Posted down lower but is getting buried:

Thesis statement - When in the course of wikis, the forcing of the Wikia skins becomes intolerable, the loss of content space and freedom of customization requires that users everywhere protest to the Staff and wave goodbye to the wiki farm Wikia.

Introduction - We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all users -Staff or Users- are equal, that they all deserve the freedom to have their say with rights to not be alienated; that among these are happy communities, freedom of editing, and the pursuit of the best their wiki can be.

List of offenses -
 * Advertising schemes.
 * Content space is too small.
 * Popular Blog Posts section.
 * Photo gallery on every page.
 * Commenting on articles.
 * Useless Wiki Activity page
 * Bar at top of page.
 * Seeing wikis as Blog Sites.
 * Failing to listen to community.

Response in past - In every stage of the staff's abuses, communities from around the site have bounded together for justice. They have expressed anger in the form of art, they have written it in the form of poetry, they have written it in the form of prose.

Assertion - Has this not been the user suffering of the Wikia Skin Design? We, the editors, therefore, do in the name of wikis everywhere, solemnly declare that all wikis should have the freedom to stick up for themselves. That it is their right, that it is their duty to throw off the New Look and to build their wiki with their beloved Monaco