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. 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, here's the code to do it .activity-type-talk.activity-ns-2001 { display: none; }

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.

Cerez365 wrote:

As I said, there is no need for there to be any general discussion here simply because there is a want for it to be here. People can go and source fulfillment like that elsewhere. Go on someones's talks page and say "hey meet me over at x for discussion". Those threads will lead to nothing more than more policing by Sysops, and entire threads of speculation entering the wikia. I can assure you it will happen simply because this is exactly what happened on the Answers wikia when blogging was left as an option for users. But I guess people have to learn things for themselves. This is mostly an opinion on what you think will happen, but you cannot predict something like this without actually trying to allow these discussions. I assure you, people would probably be a lot more happier with the wiki if they were able to converse about the topic of the wiki. If this is implemented then I propose one thread per chapter/anime release which should then be closed once that week is done so the rest of us ignorant ones aren't help captive by the discussions of the advanced species amongst us. I don't think closing a thread just because a week has passed is a wise move. KirinNOTKarin98 wrote:

as Naruto Answers is primarily a discussion wiki. Even when questions are asked, there is the comment section, which ultimately leads to several discussions. The only reason Naruto Answers is being used as a discussion wiki is because it can't be done here. If Narutopedia was more open to allowing some discussions about Naruto here, then people wouldn't keep going to other websites for discussions.