User blog comment:Leyrann/Where did comments go?/@comment-3354279-20120916163712/@comment-50.53.139.17-20120917040111

NeonSpotlight--

Are you aware of how often your posts display arrogance? Let's examine your posting history regarding the matter of the comments on the Wiki:

"I would never ask or look for advice in the comment section"

Implies superiority. Implies that those who do are wasting their time and are probably too ignorant to know otherwise. With the word "never", implies that any and all advice contained within the comments section is beneath worth enough to ever consider (which, given the site's own strategy section, indirectly implies that the administrators know more than any commenter could ever know).

"Maybe it's just because I'm at a point where I would never build FM+Warmog's on anyone, I wouldn't even think of it."

Implies superiority. Belittles those who don't think similarly.

"Regardless, just because you think you've helped someone doesn't mean you actually did"

Implies many of us are liars - if we state we've been helped by a comment, it's probably not true and if we state we have helped someone, that's also unlikely. Implies that unofficial information (i.e., that which is not established on the wiki) is inherently inferior.

You have also stated several times that those who visit this website clearly don't care about the comments based on erroneous information or false presumptions. During the vote you attempted last month on your blog regarding this matter, you claimed that the amount of page views was far greater than the actual votes in an attempt to showcase how little the majority care about comments despite the fact that:

1) You didn't use unique page views;

2) You yourself posted that voting had no effect on whether comments would be kept as a preface to the vote itself;

3) You didn't account for those who made a conscious choice not to vote despite their feelings either way.

Based on the comments and actions of those who run this website there seems to be a disturbing trend to assume a mantle of superiority. NeonSpotlight, your own biography states that you used to frequent the official League message boards but left them due to disagreements with the community and now you come here with the power to silence others, a power you did not possess on those boards.

I'm not saying that you are responsible for Nystus' actions -- you did pose the question regarding comments on your own blog and heeded the general desire of the community -- but you clearly have a disdain for the comments where others don't. Perhaps you respect the majority's feelings on the matter, but I don't feel as if you're fighting for those who want comments. And if you and Nystus aren't going to, who will?

And that is why I brought up this issue of superiority. Even if you're willing to heed others' wants, your repeated opposition against the comments section in such a way as to berate the users leads me to hold little faith that any of the administrator's have the Wikia's best interests at heart and rather what's personally convenient.

If the comments are too difficult to maintain, say so, don't make excuses about its usefulness. It IS useful to at least some people, as has been proven on here. It seems there is an attempt to convince or force the community to accept it rather than to just state the administrators don't like it and don't want it. We can work from there. We can offer help. But stop treating us like mewling children.