Thread:The Zog./@comment-25653892-20141129054443

The comments on articles are definitely not the best system. I'm not saying anyone should flip the switch to return to talk pages, because that could delete stuff of value. Just most of the comments are useless and in no way related to the actual page. Some are random and useless, some are in-jokes, some are requests for SMG4's next bloopers, and as noted by Merrystar (for all u n00bs out there, she blocked EF3), there are a lot of "Accusations of pedophilia, homosexuality, threats of rape and death, and similar intimidation tactics [which are] are all against Wikia's terms of use [these things sometimes overlapping with the in-jokes, but still, you can see what Ms is saying]."

Many of us are getting sick of pointing out that the comments are for the article and how it can be improved, and that SMG4 isn't active here, if he ever was, etc. In the past I have replied to some joke comments and played along, if you will, but looking at the comments on some pages, such as the oldest posts on the SMG4 page… yeah, those shouldn't be what people do on the non-community side of this wikia. That's what blogs are for. Hell, we have forums, but nobody uses them.

Do we need a wiki policy or something, incorporating what people are saying and doing about comments, categories, and PJ:Cleanup? Part of it could be to explain that comments are to talk about the articles, and that anything else goes to our forums. And then immediately link to the policy page from the top of the main page, and from the topnav maybe. I don't know if this is reasonable, I just don't know anymore with this wikia. Despite PJ:Cleanup, we still have a lot to do to make sure that people keep all parts of the wiki cleaned-up.

Another gripe I have with this wikia is the featured pages. A poll just doesn't seem to work for this. You can't just have people vote on which pages should be featured next; we need to nominate pages, and rather than vote directly, make an effort to actually clean the nominated pages so that they deserve votes. And people just seem to be voting for the most popular pages… Quantity≠quality. I made a long comment about stuff like this over at, again, the SMG4 page. =_= 