Board Thread:Narutopedia Collaboration/@comment-25075055-20140306083717/@comment-25075055-20140307083726

The people who are so vehemently opposed to making the forums a discussion area like Wikia wanted should maybe consider ignoring the forums instead of attempting to ruin things they don't like for other people. Ten Tailed Fox has it right in every possible aspect: there are other Wikia wiki's which are a LOT better than this one, simply because they actually make the effort to create a community. Narutopedia would be such a more popular place if the editors stopped having pointless rules like "WE DON'T LIKE DISCUSSION".

In essence, telling people to go elsewhere to discuss the series is harming the wiki. That's like me owning a website about cars and telling people to go elsewhere for help about vans, despite them being very similar to cars. These policies seem to be based on the fact that someone wanted to create a wiki on Wikia and not use any part of the social features that Wikia offers, which is stupid and pointless.

Frankly, if you want a PURE wiki with NO discussions or any social interaction, don't use Wikia: purchase a server with a web host, install MediaWiki manually and run it yourself. Wikia was designed with a community in mind: the asinine responses to those opposing this proposal are people who clearly have no interest in a community.

Cerez, I don't think closing a thread just because a week has passed is a wise move. Frankly, if you don't want to see the forum discussions, then simply use your wikia.css to bury the activity of the forums from the WikiActivity page: not that hard to do.