User blog comment:Lancer1289/Wikia's Next Major Blunder in the Making/@comment-1691295-20110929063018

I'm sorry, what's wrong with this?

It's its current form trying to have a conversation on a talk page is a bloody nightmare. How many times have we had to tell new users to sign their posts, or try and decipher who's talking to who in a conversation because people don't know how to indent their posts correctly.

I'm not going to jump on the 'this is crap' bandwagon until someone can tell me why, and 'It's like Facebook' is not a reason. Just because Wikia appears to be mimicking something popular doesn't mean it's bad. So how about we lay off the dramatics (comparing it to the American Revolution? Really???), take a deep breath, drop the hipster 'mainstream and easy is bad' attitude and consider it on its merits.

So let's go through and answer these questions first: 1. Does this make things easier? 2. What can't we do with this new feature that we can, and do, do now? 3. What problems does this solve? 4. What problems doesn't this solve?

Frankly, all I see is a bunch of people complaint about it simply because it vaguely resembles a Facebook wall. So what!?

What are the talk pages for? Sending users messages and having conversations with them. How on earth does this make that harder to do, and how does this make it like Facebook? I don't see a Like button, I don't see a Friends list.

If someone told me that Wikia (or anyone) was planning a change, I could have predicted this response. It happens all the time, so let's dispense of the utterly predictable inarticulate outrage and have a proper discussion here. In this blog post and its 31 comments, I've yet to see a single constructive post detailing what's wrong with the change. Let's change that.