Board Thread:Petitions/@comment-28083312-20171031113732/@comment-26900200-20171106004623

Banarama wrote: THE POINT IN A FEW BULLETS why is this even necessary?

but comments are useful!
 * Data shows our visitors are actually mostly adults, yet our editors are mostly teens. What could be the cause?
 * It turns out, based on interviews and personal experience from many of our older users, that our comments have been driving people away — they're pretty childish.
 * Turning off comments, whether temporarily or permanently, would quickly clean up a highly visible eyesore and bring in experienced editors.
 * Keep in mind that this is largely our only way . The spam is too plentiful for us to sift through hundreds of pages, cleaning up comments. However, as you'll see soon, this will only mildly hinder any previous uses of the feature and discussions will continue to be just as productive and lively as before.

but then where do i go?
 * However, usually comments have little to no info that is not in the article — most of the time they are either random posts without value to the community, screenshots, or discussions which while nice, are typically already inactive and ded. That means deleting existing comments won't be too much of a big deal, as either they had little valuable info, or already served their purpose discussion-wise long ago.

As you can see, disabling and deleting comments will bring a plethora of benefits, while the cons are few and alternatives are plenty. ''VOTE TO DISABLE COMMENTS — ALL PROS FOR PAGES & THE WIKI, NO CONS FOR CONTENT & COMMUNICATION '' Moved from Need I say more?
 * For discussions, as its name implies, Discussions is a great medium in lieu of Comments, and can be patrolled far more easily. All the same great discussions, but with none of the spam.
 * Forum is also a great place for discussions related to the game — there's even a whole board dedicated to it.
 * If you need to suggest changes to an article, Talk pages are always there . Give'em a chance.
 * But what about conceptions? Message Walls are easy to use and are already the #1 place to go for discussing fanon ideas, while Discussions and Forum both have great areas dedicated to fanon. Check 'em out! In addition, opinion polls will also be added to fanon pages for convenience, so there will be an abundance of easy-to-use and versatile ways to give feedback to conceptors even without comments.