User blog:75x/The Move to Brickimedia - My Thoughts

Hey, look at that, I'm using this account again while renovations to New Dalek Paradigm are underway. Before I begin, I'd like to point out that I am neutral to the move. I'm not super excited about it, but I'll still make the move.

The Argument
The people who have the sole intent of moving have a few short points in their argument. I've heard a few times that no one wants to go because of sentimentalism. I won't be the first and certainly not the last to point out that it's not true. Everyone loves this Wikia, sure. Even I do. But that does not mean that you're going to be sentimental about a website that looks identical on another host. The thing is, it's more so about the users not getting to decide on whether the move was good or not. The Administrators simply came along and said "Alright, we've got these strong reasons for moving, so we're heading off to Brickimedia. Feel free to come or not". Users don't like things similar to that. They want a fair say. The Admins threw this onto everyone, expected it to turn out peachy, and then at the last moment everyone rebels and does not want to move after all.

Okay, before any of you super-movers rage at me, let's get to the weak sides of the anti-movers. I understand why you don't want to move, but what's wrong with Brickimedia? All everyone's been talking about is not wanting to move, whereas they don't even have the heart to try it out for a day before quitting. Just give it a shot, guys. If you don't want to stay, don't stay, but the fact you won't even bother to try it just shows how stubborn you're making the situation. I know you have your reasons, I just don't see how Brickimedia is worse than Wikia, when it has several benefits to offer to the community.

The Benefits
Ah, freedom from Wikia ads. While this may seem like a great reason to move for people like Drew and Sherman and DB, I personally think it's pathetic. Sure, Wikia ads can suck sometimes, we've all seen those huge ads that are the take-up-half-of-your-screen type, but that doesn't seem like a reason to get off of this host. I've never seen anything more innapropriate than an ad for an M-rated game. And even so, the large and so-called "innapropriate' ads are only on the homepage. Yeah, I'm sure everyone spends all of their time on the homepage refreshing their pages for new ads. On any other page, you have little square ads that no one even pays attention to. All I've heard is "Wikia contributors from the LMBs do not like the ads and will not be joining". We have enough users, anyway. If ads are scaring so many users off, explain why we get so many each day.

Now, as for the other benefit of moving, the unlimited coding, you guys have me defeated. I'm psyched to see the unlimited CSS, Jquery, and whatever else you can use there. Guys, it might look identical to the layout right now, but there are a lot of benefits without being restricted to Wikia code. On Brickimedia, we can go over-the-top on anything. On Wikia, we have Rappy coming in and stating the golden rules of the high monarchy of Wikia whenever we put one button over the toolbar that no one uses anyway. Anti-movers, just imagine what could be made with all of this.

My Verdict
Oh, hey, I'm still neutral.

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