User blog comment:Sheepman/This is the terning point (READ)/@comment-1142365-20101003213947/@comment-1142365-20101003214844

I can imagine the shoutbox (which I assume you mean by key essential - the removal of the shoutbox is massively unpopular) is quite important on wikis like this, but there's always IRC to use. Who knows, maybe Wikia will come to their senses and keep it.

Also, using polls is a bad idea for this sort of thing. It's not hard to exploit the system to get multiple votes...