Forum:Removing Discussions

While Wikia/Fandom have stated in the past that Discussions isn't being removed and is now a mandatory addition I feel the time has come for us to discuss how much we want it. It's been a few months since we bastardised it and I would like to look at how that's worked out for us.

Firstly, and the most pragmatic thing to look at it is how many users we have gained. At this point, the answer is none. Despite being told in the forum where the feature was added that we should "give it time" and that it may well attract users, it hasn't. In fact we had one user trying to find an admin so they could get moderator rights. When they were contacted about the matter on wiki, they didn't even reply.

Secondly is the mater of moderation. As of right now, the page is not moderated. I did so for a while, however nearly every day new policy violation content was being added. And often by users that put one comment and don't come back.When we discussed bastardising it Fandom agreed to help moderate it. This has not happened. And there have been no users on Discussions that have shown themselves trustworthy enough, and active enough to be given the rights. This gadget requires constant attention which is just a major drain on resources for something that isn't even benefiting the wiki.

Thirdly, and springboarding off my last comment is that this feature does not, and has not benefited the wiki. So far, the extent of discussions of the feature have been nothing more than option questions (what's your favourite map etc.) and looking for players. Neither of these in any way benefit us. While it is granted that we bastardised it and generally don't talk about wiki stff there, on the times we did I linked those users talk pages so they could discuss the issue, they never followed though. One user even told us about pages they felt needed images twice.

From these 3 points alone, I don't think the feature has helped us and think we should have it disabled as right now it's nothing more than an unmoderated wasteland. None of us on the Wiki use it, and none of those that use the feature use the wiki. Personally, I think this should of been a wiki option like chat or article comments so each Wiki has a choice if they have it on. Instead we got it turned on without anyone talking to us and got told "tough shit, you have it now, like it". It's been several months, none of us like it, please take it round back and shoot it. 11:32, May 17, 2017 (UTC)