Board Thread:Help Desk/@comment-5754239-20140620001018/@comment-2170536-20140621083257

While I do have a small circle of real-life friends who play Hay Day, this particular page gave us all the opportunity to become friends with dozens of folks, all of which not only play the game but are interested in friendship. Having many friends in-game has been invaluable in several respects (completing achievements, roadside shop space, helpers, hard-to-find supplies, etc.), and there literally is no way I would have been able to find so many friends anywhere else.

Granted there are already hundreds of names on the pages already, so new players do have an opportunity to find friends from the existing list, but if the page were to go away entirely I feel a very valuable resource would be taken away from the community. I also understand that it is a challenge to maintain such a list, and I am currently looking into ways to automate some of that. If I am successful I'll let the administrators know what I've found.

Sadly, I don't think closing this page will have any effect at all on advertising spam. Given my experience on other wikis the spammers really don't care where they put it, and will likely put it on any and every page they find.