User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-460966-20110928193255/@comment-1913729-20110928231649

I don't know how many people edit Wikia, but I'm going to take a wild guess and say that it's over 500 people. Negative comments are always the ones that shine through in any situation. When something new comes out, people complain. That's life. If they can't live with the changes, then they move on or change it for themselves. It's easier to complain about something and leave it at that, than to be constructive and work for a change that can benefit both parties.

Wikia is not here only for the editors, it's here for the people who come to browse and maybe talk to random people.

It might be accurate, but what people are doing to prove its accuracy is not proving anything. I see people spouting off large percents of people that don't like this thing... where are they coming up with that? Did they count everyone in Wikia, only editors, or only the people who actually spoke about it?

Sadly, 500 people out of thousands, is not a lot. And if 500 hypothetical people dislike the new idea soo much, how come there aren't 500 constructive comments on how to improve the idea that Wikia gave? I see only a handful of helpful notes from the piles of negativity. I'm surprised they can even find what little real feedback people are giving to improve the message wall.

Most of the feedback they've been getting has not been helpful in the least. It's probably 10 comments from the same person saying how bad this is to someone else and that they should all complain together and sign some forum petition that no one really looks at because it has nothing helpful inside of it.

Why is the wall so bad? How can they improve it? What would make it better for you, as an editor?

You know it's coming. You know there will be a change. At least if you want a more desirable outcome, you should give them something to work with.