User blog comment:The Tidal Wave/Sandbox on 27th!/@comment-33800918-20171029055803/@comment-28083312-20171029080321


 * On canon tanks, users can suggest and discuss improvements that could be made to the pages, if they are slightly uncertain about it.

Unfortunately this has historically not been what they have been used for; they have been used as basically a waste dump that anyone can toss their two cents, their spam, or their random thoughts into.
 * What is more important is the comments for Conceptions. Back on the DCW, comments were a great way for me to give feedback and take it in. It helped me perfect my pages.

Historically that has not been the case with Conceptions either, although I grant that it happens much more frequently & has much less spam than with Canon pages. Even so, a comment on a single page in 3,000 is not likely to get much attention by other people or by the author themselves, whereas Discussions Posts get a lot of attention as they show up on the main page, & messaging the author directly on their Message Wall is the ideal means of contacting them to give feedback so that they actually see it.
 * And what is 'Discussions' thing gotta do with Comments? I thought it is a replacement for forums. Will it also replace article comments on every page, if'n they are gone? Or do we have to make a new Discussions thread for every page we want to comment on?

Eventually FANDOM will develop Discussions to the point where they replace Comments. At present however, Discussions posts are linked in the, so when you scroll to the bottom of a page you will see Discussions posts instead of Comments. You could then create posts in the that was set aside specifically for this kind of thing, which would then show up for many people to see in every single page on the Wikia (via ) & even more prominently on the Main Page. The more people use Discussions (& with Comments disabled it will funnel people there) the closer we get to a critical mass, & then suddenly Discussions can become the hub of all conversations throughout the Wiki (which is good since you want your topics broadcasted everywhere so that more people can talk to you).
 * I doubt #1 is true, and #2 will happen. So, for the sake of this great Wiki, vote NO for disabling Article Comments!

On the contrary, I’ve managed to convince several people that Anonymous Editing could be useful, & trust me, if it causes issue I can revert it anytime. People seem to be fairly neutral about the Galleries though, so it may be that it won’t get enabled.