User blog comment:Kiefer/Finally LyricWiki Becomes Ruined/@comment-1540683-20190403230213

So, just to be clear...I get the company's motivation. Making money is a thing that keeps the lights on and what-not. But for such a huge section of Fandom (years ago, as I recall, LyricWiki was the 3rd largest wiki) it seems to me that more could have been done than just lock the site. Bots, more eyes on the site from Fandom, etc. Even...if it must be done...block those that break the rules.

Would I prefer no censorship at all? Yes. But I knew that when LyricWiki was taken over by Wikia/Fandom that it was no longer in the hands of the 'true believers.' They have a legitimate business reason to require certain content to not have a home on the site. (From what I read while lurking around lately, a bit extreme when it came to some well-known songs/albums.) So, if they choose not to include sub-genres of music that are as much about shock and violence and rape imagery as anything else, then that's their right.

But again, there needed to be a community solution, not this....

And to all the LyricWikians around...thank you from an old bureaucrat. I stopped coming around all the time, but I did visit from time-to-time and loved what I saw. It was all the people there that made my time there so enjoyable and why the freezing of the site has affected me so much. If you no longer feel valued here, I hope you find somewhere to feel valued elsewhere. The internet is a big, big place.

Cheers!