Thread:Sylvandyr/@comment-8717779-20130606214035/@comment-4830404-20130617225829

I'm not sure that I completely follow, could I please get some elaboration about the idea? You want a checkbox for people to select platform to show up where? Once the box is selected, what happens? Are there any actions that need to be prevented before the box is selected?

The following explanation is not meant to be insulting, so please do not take it in such a way. Sometimes, the things that seem the simplest to a non-programmer are the ones that require a lot of things done in the background.

If I'm at all on the right track about the current suggestion, it has something to do about modifying the Wikia interface for forum threads? If I were the owner of a website, had all the rights to the code, and the website wasn't something like Wikia, which is limited by many MediaWiki constraints, then a significant change such as modifying the interface would be within my power. As it stands, however, I am only an Admin of the Dragon Story Wiki; this does not make me Wikia staff, and there are certain rights and permissions that Wikia does not grant to us.

I've actually had to fight a lot with Wikia just to get tools such as the Breeding Calculator and Battle Arena Calculator to work embedded on the site (rather than linking to an external site). Oftentimes, because of the shackles of Wikia and MediaWiki, the tools need to be prodded and stretched in any which way in order to work while embedded on this limited site, when they wouldn't even be close to broken on an external site.

There are many things that I cannot do, not due to lack of skill, but due to the limitations Wikia has imposed on me. Trust me, I'm not particularly happy about it, but we're camping on their site and have to make do with their amenities. >_<