Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20161213202224/@comment-4651179-20161219010119

Nausiated wrote: Well you might as well have said so, because it is....

"Because it is..." what?

Because moving your mouse is sooooo tedious. Please. If you're worried about things that are tedious to people viewing the Wiki, there are far more tedious than having to move ones mouse around. They're moving their mouse around anyway. Unless they're using a keyboard to navigate around the page on a desktop, I hardly think this is as burdensome a task as you make it sound. You paint a ridiculously melodramatic conundrum on the mouse issue.

It still doesn't change the fact that reading a page would be much faster if they didn't need to hover the mouse over every single link to get some kind of clarification on which character is being listed. It could turn getting the information on a page from taking only a quick glance to having to move their mouse, stop, wait for the label to appear, and then do it again for another link.

I'm not trying to paint it as a "melodramatic conundrum," as you eloquently put it, I simply mentioned it takes more time. And it does.

If they're phone is current, not bogged down with apps and they have a decent cell provider, I don't see how people are having a problem accessing the site on a mobile platform where people are waiting forever for a page to load. If they are using the Marvel Wikia App, pages load that much faster than on a standard browser. If they're more of a casual viewer of the site, they have the app already.

The time it would take for the link pop-up to appear in mobile has nothing to do with Internet provider or speed. That clear-up aside, it does take a few seconds for the long-press context menu to appear. It is a long-press menu, after all.

You're also forgetting the fact that, if the issue summary is written, they should know which version of the character it is without having to click on the link either.

Issue summaries have the same advantage as history texts, they both can be much more verbose than a list.

And yes, a lot of people don't care about reading the issue summary. After all, the appearance list does provide most of the same information the issue summary does, but much more compactly. It's not good if readers are forced the read the issue summary for information as simple as excatly which character is being listed here.

Finally, I would ask you to please ditch the condescending attitude. Being confrontational defeats the entire purpose of a community based on mutual collaboration. And it's counterproductive in a debate if you're belittling the very person you're supposed to convince of your points.