Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140331114355/@comment-732150-20140331200526

Speysider wrote: No, the Answers Wiki exists because of that line of thinking Omnibender. Other wiki's laugh and scorn because we're probably the only wiki who makes no effort to have a community. Like I have mentioned in the past before, if you don't want see forum discussions, edit your wikia.css and hide them from WikiActivity: it really is not that hard. Scaring users does not help, nor does that line of thinking.

Like I said: if the rules on what kind of discussions were loosened up ages ago, the Answers Wiki would not exist. It's only active because of poor decisions made in the past. If you want a totally non-community wiki, then Wikia is not for you. And we care what other wikis think of us because? Don't really think that they care much what we think them either, their wikis are their wikis. Your conception of a community precludes idle chatter of the topic at hand, mine doesn't, simple as that. Just because in the last couple years Wikia has decided to force social features down our throats, doesn't mean I'm going to swallow it. At least most of the "features" are optional, and in case of older wikis, require to opt in. We were fine before it, thank you very much. Simply hiding forum discussions through wikia.css isn't going to cut it if the non-chatter, important stuff disappears into the night as well.