User blog comment:Stuartfergie/Changing the current policy of deleting and editing comments/@comment-5237598-20130709115334/@comment-11707875-20130709121640

People bickering in comments hasn't cost the site it's fanbase - the overall structure of the site has. I'm perfectly aware of how hard it is to run a website - I run one myself, and we went down the same road the Teen Wolf Wiki has. You want to know what happened? We lost followers. That's what happens when you impose rules on others - they'll either follow them if they find them reasonable or go somewhere else if they don't. The difference between my website and this one is that I pay for mine - I do the maintenance, I am the sole owner. For this wikia, it is a community space, and it should therefore operate in the interests of the community. The reason it lost attractivity is because it's marketed as a community website, but the community has very little say in how it is run.

Now, that is my opinion and the one stated above. And everyone is entitled to their opinion. So I have to say I find it a bit rude that you're suggesting we should have kept our opinions to ourselves. It wasn't us that changed anything - it was the admin. To say we should have keep quite to keep someone happy violates the whole freedom of speech concept. When you are in a position of power in any place, you're going to cop critisism. One of the best ways to alleviate it is to weather it and find a compromise that people are happy with. I don't think the admin did that here, which is why people are unhappy, and we are entitled to say as much.