Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11458028-20140813114306/@comment-25162623-20140823082207

I understand that commenting on the article is a privilege that can be revoked at any time by the mercy of admins and I understand that this is a form of punishment to the community because people made comments that are getting out of hand in the eyes of admins.

First, please correct me if I'm wrong, but your sentence:

" It is a  privilege'' to have the types of communication you have on this wiki, especially when you do not otherwise legitimately edit the articles you comment on (and yes, a comment is--for some reason--considered an "edit", which is why I used the term "legitimate" before in regards to actual edits)." ''

is basically saying that people should be grateful that they are allowed to make a comments especially when they are not contributing to the actual page at all. Thus the number of edit on their profile increase to look as if they are really contributing. I believe when the page is not complete people will contribute (if they have the information), but when the page is done or when they don't have the information, what is there to edit? unless you want people to mess the page. I think what matters here is the intention.

Second, I know we all doing here just fine. But comments and thread is completely different. As SolarMist says ''"I personally enjoy the layout of the comments since multiple topics could be talked about at ease due to the nesting layout. With the thread, everything is linear, which means that although multiple topics can be discussed, it'll be much harder to follow them." Furthermore, as Heartless Hunter says, " ''Closed or not these people won't disappear .. " So I believe that closing the comment section is not doing you anything. You believe that   the fewer communication tools this wikia have, the more controlled the environment is. However the fact is when the comment section are open, no one is making any thread for daemons. So it's either comment section or thread. The downside of thread is, when people really make nasty comment on thread, you have to check one by one from the beginning instead of reading the reply comment on nesting layout. It's still your choice.

Third, I believe that everyone has the freedom of opinion and expression, negative opinions included. The same goes to the opinion of having the comment section back. You should make a poll whether the community want to continue their existence on thread or comment section. I believe some likes thread better, you are not forbidden to make a new thread to discuss about a daemon. But please don't choke us who want to discuss it on comment section.

Fourth, I know that comment section is closed until further notice, but this is 10 days already. If you decide to open it in the future, don't we have the rights to know when is it going to be? If you decide to close it permanently, even after we all 'begging' you to re-open it in this thread. Are we safe to assume that you are just closing your eyes and covering your ears while abusing your authority? I believe this wikia is owned by the community, not by admins.