User blog comment:Lancer1289/Wikia's Next Major Blunder in the Making/@comment-899316-20110929023252/@comment-899316-20110929112615

Then why not compromise? Wikia didn't compromise last time, though, they just pushed the New Look through anyway. Above, you made some valid points as to why the current Talk Page system is rather flawed, but those are, in my opinion, minor issues that are easy to deal with. The issues created by this Message Wall system are not able to be fixed, however, by users. For example, you can't mess with the archives, which are automatically made after twenty responses, and that can fill up the wanted pages pretty quickly is an old page is deleted. There are many other reasons to oppose this change, a few of which were gathered by Wikia. The biggest problem I have with it is how unnecessary I think it is. I see nothing I can do on this messed up Wall that I can't do on a current Talk Page, but now there are these limits and flaws which, unlike the issues with current talk pages, cannot be fixed by users in any way. You can tell somebody to sign their posts or indent in the present system, but you can't un-archive old messages or chang how long before they archive or remove redlinks or delete messages or leave instructions at the top of your Talk Page or...

My point is, while there are some problems with the system we use now, there are worse ones with the Message Wall. If Wikia shows signs of fixing these problems, or doing something g at all about even a few of them, I'll be fine with this change, even if I don't like it. This would show that Wikia is starting to pay attention to their community. Also, change is often supported, but generally only if it fixes something bad. This does not. Rather, it makes things bad in a few cases. Also, I could go into loads of details about the American Revolution to explain my choice of comparison, but I'll summarize instead. The British government, though they had their (good) reasons, continued to push taxes through and fiercely regulate colonial trade. The Colonists had no say in the matter (really they couldn't have, but that's a place where the two situations differ), and this angered many of them, who rose up in rebellion, after many instances of attempted negotiation and peaceful solution failed. In our case, we have Wikia, who are changing things left and right without paying any attention to feedback from their community. That's a similar beginning. We'll have to wait and see how this ends though. Maybe Wikia will clean up their act and change a few things this time. If so, and there are changes made to the Message Wall that reflect the community's complaints, I'll be fine with it. I'm not sure they'll do that though. They didn't last time, so why would they do so now?