Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130401145406/@comment-7302713-20130402193526

CzechOut wrote: To answer the OP directly, you're not supposed to close it with the X. You're supposed to click on it and read the message, which will then automatically close it. But there is an x, or there's supposed to be. The pop-ups aren't trying to force people to read notices that are irrelevant to them or that they have no interest in. Besides, while I didn't try closing the pop-ups by clicking on the link, someone else on this thread did and it didn't work.

Besides, these notices pop-up for people who just come here to read and have no interest in editing this wiki. If you have a wikia account and are logged in, you see wikia pop-ups even on wikis you don't edit. While I did eventually pop by the forums and comment, I came here with no intention of editing and was seriously annoyed when I couldn't close pop-ups on this wiki.

Annoying editors is not a good idea. Annoying readers is even worse. It undermines the goals of this wiki.