User blog comment:Neowitch/New Comment Editor - Let's rant!/@comment-1595565-20120324005811/@comment-4493594-20120324092657

It has a source mode (which does absolutely nothing for the performance, it's as lame as the visual mode). And if you set the whole wiki to source mode in your Preferences you won't even have to bother to set the comment editor to it, too, since the visual mode will not even be available. But that makes this editor even more pointless. If I want to make my text bold or italic I just use the ' (<okay, so that's something a new user wouldn't know, I admit that). Few people will bother using the Add Link and the picture and vid upload does more bad than good.

And yes, you are probably right but Wikia is not quite as far away from its users as YT and it's worth a try.

I think if we tell them that we already have problems with people uploading unnecessary images to the wiki and the editor will only make it worse they will understand. PLUS we can and should make an official poll. It would make sense to ask them IF it's possible to turn this feature off for individual wikis first, though.