User blog comment:Lancer1289/Wikia's New Skin, the countdown begins/@comment-737801-20100929200652/@comment-1691295-20100930020443

800+ negative comments? 800 unique negative comments? Because from what I see it's the same 4 or 5 people banging on about it most of the time. You also need to take into account self-selection bias. 800+ negative comments only tells you that 800+ people don't like the change, and nothing about how many people like it (seeing 800+ people harping on about how awful it is isn't an inviting environment for someone who likes it), let alone the people who are apathetic, who aren't going to comment at all.

It's also comments from editors and admins, who based on simple psychology aren't going to like it because it's a change from what they're familiar with and what they've worked on. I don't see many of the eventual end users commenting, seeing as they're not exactly the kind of people to comment on wikia's blog.

No matter what they did they would have a whole bunch of people complaining anyway, see the Petition talk page for list of comments from last time they made a much smaller change.

It would be irresponsible to let the people who show up to comment run the show. If you looked at the official Mass Effect or Dragon Age forums you'd see how utterly terrible Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age 2 would have been if the designers made the game by counting up the number of negative comments on those boards. Not to mention it would be even more irresponsible if they made those decisions immediately after reading the comments. Give them some time.