User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1317169-20130130010742/@comment-188432-20130131171721

After clicking through on the banners at w:c:harrypotter, I am now opposed to participating in the Wikia Alliance.

All it's doing is directing people to various user-written blogs. The science fiction one currently takes users to a blog about a subject matter that's, in my opinion, as thematically different as you can get from Doctor Who — a gory video game series that regularly depicts disembowelment but happens to be set in space.

Since we've decided as a community to get rid of blogs, I think that featuring a connection to blog posts on our front page would serve to confuse our user base. We already field the occasional question, "How do you start a blog here?" This feature would probably only increase those questions.

More importantly, because it depends on blogs, we will never be featured. If there were even a chance that we might be on one of these banners, and thus drive traffic here, then I'd see some use to it. But there's not. So the only possible benefit is the slim chance that we might get promoted in a Wikia tweet (woohoo) or their Entertainment portal page. We just wouldn't be full partners on this thing.

Finally, the graphic involved is much bigger than the "Time to Play" one was. I don't feel that it will fit into the upcoming main page redesign at all. And the "Time to Play" graphic was just a link to an internal page. This is a link off site.

So now that I've had a chance to actually look it in action, I really don't want to participate in this at all.