Forum:Terminating "Friends Lists"

This forum is discussing whether or not the friends lists on user pages and the occasional talk page should be terminated, or gotten rid of. Here are my points on why they should:


 * They are useless. Absolutely useless. They contribute nothing to the wiki as a whole, and are a way to basically just waste time.
 * They fill up the recent changes with pointless edits to user pages, and increase a user's editcount in the "User" namespace.
 * Administrators don't know if these edits to other user's pages are vandalism or not, and we don't have time to check.
 * Some regard them as a way to build popularity and have friends in the website. This is NOT a chatsite or a socializing site, and our focus should not be to crave popularity but to work towards the betterment of the wiki.
 * You do not make friends by having people sign a list. Friendship is something you work to cultivate over a long period of time and it eventually blossoms.

Please post your comments and suggestions below this line. Please realize there will be action taken against the friend lists in any case, because there is no point to them and the community would be well off without them. -- 03:15, July 28, 2010 (UTC)