Forum:Disable RTE

The Rich Text Editor is one of the worst things Wikia ever made.

If you don't know why, it's bad because it "destroys" some WikiCode and makes pointless spaces and lines. Two examples can be seen here and here. The headlines and lists are now normal text, and when you edit, you see a mess. There are "a million" bugs in it!

Wikia Staff says they can disable it, so I propose that we do that. -- Staffan15  (talk 20:59, June 9, 2010 (UTC)

=Vote (+7)=

For (8)

 * 1) Per what I said above. -- Staffan15  (talk 20:59, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) --Hal Homsar Solo |  Taisetsu ni Suru Yo  | I'll Cherish You  21:00, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) I'm not a regular contributor to this site, but I'd like to put my comments in support of getting rid of the rich text editor. It's turned off on all 3 sites I regularly use, and we havn't seen any loss of users because of it. The RTE creates heavily bloated, and sometimes innaccurate code. (a prime example is this - which was some random wiki I picked from the global recent changes - this was trying to create a table). To ask for it to be disabled, simply have an admin contact Wikia Random Time  12:15, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) Hey Randomtime. Anyways, I totally agree, it's so unnecessary. -- Tigernose  [[Image:Tigernose.png|link=User:Tigernose/profile|20px]]  Chat   •  Edits   17:32, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * 5) Per Sea's comment, it encourage's new users to use code and end up making it look like they used  . Totally remove. -- Eternal Magma   Complaints ahoy!  18:25, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * 6) Annoying, hard, and I think we used to have a rule against it -- Unknown4   Talk  18:27, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * 7) Yeah...it is annoying. Especially the text things it leaves when you edit sometimes. I agree. -- ''' Talk2Meh 19:32, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
''harkbate Talk2Meh 19:32, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * 8) Per all. Burpy678 A glove being punched?! Now that is IRONY!  19:48, June 10, 2010 (UTC)

Against (1)

 * 1) It may be buggy, but it encourages new editors. -- seahorseruler | Talk  (EditCount) Yoshi! 21:19, June 9, 2010 (UTC)

Comments

 * In reply to Seahorseruler's comment, it's bad for new users because if they get used to it, they will never get used to the normal editor (which is better) and they will never leave it. We need our users to grow up like the older generation did with the normal text editor. -- Tigernose  [[Image:Tigernose.png|link=User:Tigernose/profile|20px]]  Chat   •  Edits   17:32, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * Unknown4, it wasn't a rule, we just told people to turn it off. -- Staffan15  (talk 19:24, June 10, 2010 (UTC)